"A Brother's Price" is a novel by Wen Spencer, set in an alternate Earth where only 5% of live human births are male. Many miscarry or are stillborn, though the cause of the syndrome is unexplained. To the people, they only know "God loves men very much, because she brings so many to her." The plot is about Jerin Whistler, a boy going on 16 and by tradition due to be sold into a marriage by his family. His mothers are respected landed gentry, his grandfather a kidnapped prince, and his grandmothers common line soldiers blackballed for treason, trained by thieves, re-enlisted as spies, and knighted for acts of valor. Jerin wants to marry well, and his sisters want a husband bought by his brother's price.
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