The Sovereign, Part One (The Sovereign Saga #1)

I rolled onto my back, eyes still closed, dragging the covers over my head as if they could reverse the date.

Sleep had never really come—just a cycle of worry and what-ifs, stacking in my mind like a tower of leirs at a Vanguard soirée—painstakingly planned and arranged until some clueless socialite elbowed them into oblivion.

Ninety or so minutes from now, an assessment meant to examine every crevice of our Vesture would commence.

A Vesture that, from nearly the beginning, had been filled with deviances and infractions—minor, major, and some that would warrant a one-way ticket beyond the wall.