Becoming Prey Under the Eye of Horus

Kjerstin Eíriksdóttir 4 stories

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Summary

In the ancient realm of Amun-Khet, the gods are not distant. They walk among the living, preside over the dead, and rule through divine law written in blood and binding marks. Nefra has known nothing but the temple system since the floods took her family when she was four years old. Trained to obey, silenced by sacred vows, and marked as property of the divine hierarchy, she has spent twenty-two years making herself useful and invisible in equal measure. She expects to die the same way she lived — correctly, quietly, without ever having mattered to anything. Then she is transferred to the Necropolis of the Western Gates, where Horus presides. Cold, eternal, and worshipped with trembling devotion, the god of sky and judgment has spent four centuries behind a perfect, deliberate distance — weighing the hearts of the dead with absolute precision and feeling nothing he did not authorize himself to feel. He does not notice mortals. He does not descend from his dais. He does not carry birthday bread materialized from divine supply or sit in human-sized chairs in servants' record rooms at the third hour of the night. Until Nefra. What begins as a dangerous and forbidden obsession slowly becomes something neither of them has language for: a god learning to inhabit the original form of himself, and a bound woman discovering, for the first time, that she is the kind of thing that gets to choose. But the divine hierarchy is watching. Set is building a case. Isis has been arranging outcomes. And love between the immortal and the mortal has only ever ended one way — with closed gates, and fifty years of silence, and a god who continues his function because the function does not stop, even when everything else does. Eyes of the Cosmos is a dark, hauntingly atmospheric romance about forbidden devotion, the politics of the divine, and what it costs — and what it is worth — to be truly seen by something that cannot look away.