Diamond's Ledger: No One Ever Owned Me

They called me treasure. They called me property. They built fortunes, marriages, dynasties and wars around the belief that I could belong to them.They were wrong.From the darkness of the earth to the mine, the cutting bench, the crown, the battlefield, the auction room and the museum case, a diamond watches humanity construct entire systems of meaning around its brilliance.It remembers the hands that extracted it and the hands that claimed it. The blood spilled for it. The vows sealed with it. The fortunes measured through it. The ordinary people who saved for months simply to place it on another person's finger.And through all of it, the diamond remains what it has always been: an observer that cannot be persuaded by sentiment, status or ownership.The Diamond's Ledger is the first volume of The Ledgers, a literary series in which the materials humanity has shaped, worshipped and weaponised are finally given the opportunity to speak.Cold, intimate and quietly unsettling, No One Ever Owned Me asks what possession actually means when the object being possessed may outlive every owner, every empire and every story told about it.Because a diamond can be mined.It can be cut.It can be bought, inherited, stolen, displayed and buried.But it cannot truly be owned.The Ledgers — Book One.