Hey everyone :)
Monday has spread its rays, and we are grateful to be given another day. Another week to bring us closer to our dreams--we just have to believe.
We are delighted to showcase from our Past It On | Historical Fiction reading list:
Where Kings Can't Rule by @Shivran86 :
https://www.wattpad.com/story/302546887-where-kings-can%27t-rule
Summary: In the tyrannical kingdom of Aratta, a young widowed mother returns alive from the den of a mysterious king where women go only to return as corpses.
The kingdom of Aratta passes from one tyranny to another, being won over by a king who demands all royal women and servants to use a veil in his presence. Rules dictate that each new moon night he must take a woman, bed her in passion, only for her to become a corpse by the dawn.
No one except the ministers and the Kandake know who he really is.
One night, a young widow is summoned by him, that too when it isn't a new moon. She puts her son to sleep and takes a dagger, dresses in red, ready to please the king.
One night, when his identity is revealed to her.
And she returns alive.
Aratta finds mention in both the vedic texts and Sumerian texts. In the Sumerian texts it is said to be the original home of Inanna and a land of immense luxury and richness, filled with gold and lapis lazuli, while the vedas classify it as a kingless nation (coming from the world Arashtra) and its people probably fought the Mahabharata war from the Kauravas side. This story builds an imaginary world around the kingdom of Aratta.
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Cheers,
NewlyWrittenBooks team =]
