{"product_id":"the-burden-awakens","title":"The Burden Awakens","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSome inherit wealth. Some inherit power. Some inherit the past.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eFor one hidden web of bloodlines, that last gift is real. When they die, they do not leave a record behind. They leave a life: every memory, every learned skill, every grief and conviction, passed whole into the next of their line and relived from the inside. For thousands of years the handover has never once failed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThen the last Keeper dies, the inheritance breaks for the first time in history, and on the same night five strangers across the world wake to memories that are not their own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThey are not the only ones who want it. Older powers have spent centuries certain they alone know what such a gift is for: to rule, to heal, to keep asking, to refuse, or to cut it away forever. \u003cstrong\u003eIn this story, the most dangerous people are not the wicked. They are the convinced.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eDrawn together beneath a city far older than its streets, the five begin to suspect they are not the true inheritors of this power. They are pieces of something older still — and the past they have woken into has been waiting a very long time to be remembered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhen people inherit the past, do they become wiser, or simply more dangerous?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Burden Awakens\u003c\/em\u003e is Book One of The Inheritance Chronicles: a sweeping work of literary fantasy about inherited memory, ancestral grief, and the danger of certainty. For readers of Susanna Clarke's \u003cem\u003ePiranesi\u003c\/em\u003e, R. F. Kuang's \u003cem\u003eBabel\u003c\/em\u003e, and V. E. Schwab's \u003cem\u003eThe Invisible Life of Addie LaRue\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe most dangerous truths are the ones we inherit without question\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bound Page","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":67010468839728,"sku":"9781918999006","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/the-burden-awakens","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}