Inanna's Descendants: Consent is ongoing. Communication is essential. Safety is not optional. - Couverture souple

Cune, M.A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1997041022 ISBN 13 : 9781997041023

Editeur : Just N Tyme Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

“Consent is ongoing. Communication is essential. Safety is not optional.”

Those words were not invented now.

In 2026, Amira Khalil is on trial in a fictional Canadian jurisdiction. The Crown says she assaulted a partner during a scene at the Cymbal House, a private club built on safewords, aftercare, and explicit negotiation. Amira says every bruise was asked for. Every stop sign was honored.

To prove it, her defense tells a different story — one that begins 4,500 years ago.

In Uruk, a temple priestess named Eresh holds a whip and a copper cymbal. “If you want it to stop, you drop this,” she tells the noble’s daughter. “The goddess will hear it.”

In Pompeii, women gather behind painted walls to flog one another in the name of a god. They call it liberation. Their neighbors call it madness.

And in every century since, the descendants of Inanna have met in secret. They’ve been called witches, deviants, and criminals. They’ve been diagnosed, arrested, and erased. But they kept the rules: Negotiate. Watch. Stop when asked. Give care when it ends.

Now those rules are on trial.

As prosecutor Dean Walsh builds his case, Amira and her partners must prove that what happened was not abuse — it was agency. But when the law decides what you’re allowed to consent to, who owns your body?

Inanna’s Descendants is a literary courtroom novel that braids historical fiction with a modern legal thriller. Inspired by real cases like, R v Brown and R v J.A. and grounded in 4,500 years of archaeology, theology, and community practice, it asks the question every era struggles to answer: What does it mean to give power away by choice? What does it mean to hold it with care?

For readers who loved The Handmaid’s Tale,Anatomy of a Scanda, and The Covenant of Water.

Content Guidance: Police interogation, and deportation risk. All depicted acts are negotiated with safewords and aftercare. There are no depictions of non-consensual sexual violence. This book is not legal or medical advice.

“A bruise is a prayer. A cut is a mistake.” — Eresh of Uruk, c. 2500 BCE

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Just N Tyme Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1997041022
• ISBN 13: 9781997041023
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 206
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