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The Graveyard of Unborn Kings

The Graveyard of Unborn Kings

Wimer Center

Paperback

Young Adult Fiction

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ISBN13: 9798256292775
Publisher: Diane Wimer Center
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Twelve-year-old Tomas Sterling lives in Oakhaven, a seemingly ordinary town that is actually the fragile remains of a world built upon erased possibilities. Wherever Tomas goes, he sees the Unborn Kings-ghostly versions of himself who died, failed, ruled, or lived entirely different lives in timelines that no longer exist. They are silent witnesses to the reality he has unknowingly stolen.Tomas is the Anchor, the living vessel of the Crown of Non-Existence. His existence stabilizes the Sole Pillar, the force that keeps Oakhaven's single surviving timeline intact. Every life that could have existed but was discarded becomes another Unborn King, and every moment Tomas spends maintaining the world pushes those forgotten possibilities further into oblivion.His only source of comfort is Serena Hawthorne, a girl whose very existence contradicts the rules of Oakhaven. Serena can see the cracks in reality and has begun to hear the Unborn Kings calling from the void. As the world around them starts to flicker and disappear, Tomas realizes that Serena may be a survivor of a timeline that was never supposed to exist.Then Julian Mercer, the First Unborn, appears.Julian is not merely another ghost. He is an older version of Tomas-a version who chose power over duty and escaped the role of Anchor. He reveals the horrifying truth: Oakhaven's stability has been maintained for a thousand years by repeatedly sacrificing every other possible reality. Tomas has inherited a kingdom built upon an infinite graveyard of lives that were never allowed to be born.But the alternative may be even worse.Victoria Beaumont, guardian of the Sole Pillar, warns Tomas that releasing the Unborn Kings could trigger the Great Dissolve, erasing not only the alternate timelines but also everyone Tomas loves in the present. His aunt Eleanor, Serena, and the entire world of Oakhaven could cease to have ever existed.Now Tomas stands before an impossible choice. He can perform the Sovereign Ritual again, sacrificing the remaining possibilities to preserve the dying world he knows-or finally let go of his role as Anchor and allow reality to become something unknown.The Graveyard of Unborn Kings is a dark, philosophical fantasy about alternate realities, guilt, sacrifice, identity, and the terrifying burden of choosing which lives deserve to exist. It asks a haunting question: If saving the world means erasing every other version of yourself, would you still choose to survive?

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