In the world of The Keeper and the Rulership, there are three quasi-magical systems – status, mathematics, and magic. People who are endowed with one of these systems are not allowed to use the others. Status is sort of the currency of the realm. It is nearly invisible, but it can be felt. Landowners have status – or they should. When they become landowners, people have to renounce magic (and I presume mathematics, although mathematics is not considered as dangerous as magic). Magicians have to request magic and renounce status. Mathematics is acquired primarily through study and seems to be safeguarded by the lack of interest in mathematics on the part of non-mathematicians.
If a landowner, or someone who should have renounced magic, uses magic, they can incur the death penalty.
In this story, we are primarily following Raneh, the daughter of a landowner family whose dream is to marry another landowner, get their own place, and raise a family. Unfortunately, Raneh also has magic. She is trying to hide it, but it is getting harder and harder.
Raneh is a little annoying at times because she is primarily focused on finding a husband. The two boys who have been courting her don’t seem exactly what she is looking for, so she is looking for someone more to her liking. Meanwhile, she is trying to keep her magic under control by releasing it into plants called groverweed in her garden. The groverweed absorbs the magic, but it is beginning to do some strange things. Her grandfather, a mathematician, tells her (without knowing about her magic problem) that magic has been slowly disappearing from the world for years, since before she was born. Raneh wonders if she can be the cause of magic disappearing. Or, on the other hand, if she can become the one to save it.
Raneh’s sister, Yaika, is also obsessed with getting married. Her goal is to marry the richest man she can find. When one of the Ruler’s heirs comes to an event near their home, she can’t wait to meet him – until she discovers he is in his fifties. But later the Ruler herself comes to Yaika’s oath ceremony (this is the Oath of childhood that children take when they are twelve). She is impressed enough with Yaika that later still she comes back with her husband and three other heirs to spend a week. They check out Yaika and the family thoroughly and wind up making an offer for Yaika to become one of the ruler’s heirs.
When her parents decide they can’t accompany Yaika to Central, Raneh volunteers to go with her to keep an eye on her. In Central, they all learn what it means to be a Ruler’s heir. As much of an honor as that is, it turns out to be more like a job.
Eventually though Raneh is caught having magic. And then things really get strange.
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