Each passing cycle was starting to feel like a defeat, and some days she wondered if she’d ever see home again. When she’d left her home world of Eturia-or fled, really-it had been with a heavy heart and the intention of returning before the next gathering moon.

She couldn’t decide if that was a good thing. Now, after her second year in residence on the SS Banshee, she moved through the ship like a cat at midnight, her retinas magnifying the barest hint of a spark, so she rarely needed to turn on the overhead bulbs. All it had taken then was the glow of a distant star through her bedroom porthole to bring her boots into focus. After the first year of living off world, Cassia noticed her sight had adapted to the sensory deprivation. The eyes tended to latch on to anything luminous, starved for a sense of direction in the thick black void. “I, Leonardo Da Vinci,” Saga of Western Man You will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, In the face of unspeakable evil, Cassia must confront her own family’s complicated legacy on Eturia and decide once and for all who her real family is. When the outer realm is threatened by the dangerous Zhang mafia, Cassia, Kane and the rest of the Banshee crew uncover a horrifying conspiracy that endangers the entire universe. Kane knows he will never find someone to replace Cassia - and is certain she returns his feelings - but how can he throw away his own promising future waiting on a queen? Cassia must make alliances, and Kane, the bastard son of a merchant, isn’t a choice that will earn her any friends. But when they arrive on Eturia, Cassia isn’t exactly in need of heroics - she’s claimed her birthright as Eturia’s queen, but has inherited a war-torn planet simmering with rebellion. Meanwhile, Kane and the rest of the crew of the Banshee plan a desperate rescue mission. Her only solace is that the Banshee crew managed to evade capture, including Kane Arric, her best friend…with occasional benefits.

Shackled by bounty hunters, she is violently dragged back to account for her crimes. Now after two years hiding as a ship hand, she is finally returning to her beloved home but not in the way she imagined. When Princess Cassia Rose fled her home world of Eturia to escape an arranged marriage, she had no idea her sudden departure would spark a war.

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