Starbound Journey: Bloodlines of Empire

 
Book 2 of the STARBOUND Series

They survived the Tower. Now they have to survive the truth about who they are.

Ivo, Penelope, Elias, and Silas escaped Earth as strangers and survived the Tower as a family. But leaving Earth behind was only the beginning.

Beyond the Tower waits an Empire of conquered worlds, buried histories, and secrets powerful enough to change everything they thought they knew about themselves.

For Ivo, the answers are becoming impossible to ignore. The boy with no memory may be Riven, King Kasper’s son and the missing heir to a royal family destroyed by Emperor Inimicus. As fragments of his past return, so do questions about the kingdom he lost—and whether blood alone can decide whom he is supposed to become.

Penelope has secrets and fears of her own. The strange illness affecting her is getting worse, and she is terrified of what it could mean. Yet the person she most wants to keep at a distance is Ivo, whose growing feelings for her are becoming increasingly difficult for either of them to ignore.

Silas has spent his life believing he knows where he belongs. Aleesha has become one of the few people who makes him feel that he still does.

Then they discover the truth.

Silas was not simply taken by the Empire.

He was created by its Emperor.

As Silas and Aleesha grow closer, Silas must face the impossible truth that he was created from the man responsible for so much suffering, and that Emperor Inimicus has been searching for him for years.

Now two boys stand at the center of two very different legacies.

One may be the heir to a fallen kingdom.

The other may be the heir to the Empire that destroyed it.

And while friendship begins turning into something deeper, the family they found aboard the Tower may be pulled apart by bloodlines they never chose.

Because the Emperor knows where they are.

And this time, he isn't sending an army.

He's sending a ship for his son.

One is the heir to a fallen kingdom. One is the heir to an empire. Neither gets to choose where he came from—but they can choose who they become.