The Name-Bearer (Flowers of Prophecy #1)

by Natalia Hernandez

To her, the girl kneeling before her with rumpled and disheveled auburn hair, and a wild, almost panicked look in her eyes was simply a young and terrified child.

But Princessa Issalia and Prince Enrique, only a few years older than she was at the time, had been promised to one another.

only that every Name-Bearer, and no one but the Name-Bearer, has been able to hear them.”

What if they lied

only thing that she was chosen to do.

Princessa Issalia and Prince Enrique were nine and ten years old, respectively, when their parents arranged the match, and would wed eight years later.

Why so young??

“I placed an enchantment on the bees to find and choose you. They may be the messengers of the gods, but the Flower’s prophecy was too important to risk intervention. I could not take the chance of them not choosing you.”

we will not invent a name

The law decreed that any noble children without names could be brought to the palace for a Naming Rite, but only after the future king or queen was named first.

But those citizens of Andala without the coin to spare could be taken into servitude and sold as slaves.

Slavery is allowed in this country?

The Name-Bearer is nameless, they are forever nameless.

Other children find the priestesses or temples later in life, for they were born appearing male, but over the years come to embrace their inner goddess and transform to become their true selves.

Queer accepting