The Least Loved
The Calloway power has passed down for six generations, always to the family member the dying holder loved least. Everyone assumed it would land on Julian, the golden son. It....
The Calloway power has passed down for six generations, always to the family member the dying holder loved least. Everyone assumed it would land on Julian, the golden son. It lands on Briar, the cousin nobody invited to family dinners, the one Edmund Calloway could barely look at in his final year. Now she is the most powerful person in a family that made her feel like the least important one in the room, and the man sent to kill her before the power stabilizes is starting to wonder if he was lied to about why. Briar does not want to prove she deserves this. She wants to prove the power did not make a mistake and finding out which one is true will mean tearing apart a system that has been engineering "unloved" heirs on purpose for a hundred years.