Ashes of the Gate [Wuxia Space Opera]: The Accidental Prince

Aren Solara is a prince who can't fight. Not "can't fight well." Can't fight at all. He carries a folding fan, quotes scripture at people trying to kill him, and once got slapped off a bench in front of an entire martial academy because he laughed at a swordsman's footwork. In a galaxy where men and women channel a bio-energetic force called Flow to shatter mountains and cross star systems in a single leap, Aren's greatest combat achievement is running away slightly faster than average. Then the universe decides he's hilarious and starts handing him power. A forbidden absorption technique that drains anyone who touches him. A movement art that makes him nearly impossible to hit. An ancient beam weapon that fires from his fingertips — sometimes at enemies, sometimes at walls, sometimes at teacups. All of them devastating. None of them controllable. And all of them painting a target on his back the size of a small moon. Now the galaxy's most dangerous warrior-monk wants to kidnap him. A seven-foot criminal with the IQ of a brick insists on being his master. He keeps falling in love with women who turn out to be his half-sisters (thanks, Dad). And the one woman he's actually allowed to love — brilliant, beautiful, a walking encyclopedia of every fighting style in the Cluster — doesn't know he exists. Meanwhile, somewhere across the stars, the most feared man alive is about to discover that his entire life is a lie. He and Aren haven't met yet. They will.