Telesias 09: Spare Blood

A Great Argead Saga ALEXEIN Volume I: Telesias: The War Dance 368 BC: The Price of Peace Telesias 09: Spare Blood They were footnotes in the royal ledger. Now, they are political collateral. 👑🩸 While Prince Philip and Queen Eurydice mourn the assassinated King in the western wing, a different survival game is being played in the palace's old timbered quarters. Here, the crisis belongs exclusively to the "Spare Blood"—Archelaus, Arrhidaeus, and Menelaus. As the sons of the late King’s secondary marriage, these three princes carry the pure Macedonian pedigree the court craves. To the murderous new Regent, Ptolemy of Aloros, they are the most immediate rivals to his legitimacy. But Ptolemy is a weaver, not a butcher; he won't execute them publicly—he plans to sell them. When word arrives that the Regent is trading the princes to the southern Greek powers to buy security for his stolen throne, panic turns into a cold, calculated resolve. Archelaus steps into the light, his youth hardening into premature iron: "Let him send us into exile. In this palace, we are ghosts waiting for hemlock. In the south, we will learn exactly how an empire is engineered." The board is set, and the hunt for survival has begun. #PhilipOfMacedon #AncientHistory #SpareBlood #Alexeine #HistoricalFiction #MacedonianEmpire #PalaceIntrigue #Betrayal #AncientGreece #EpicHistory #RoyalSecrets #BookTeaser