Trasceran Chronicles

Turmoil envelops the lands adjoining the Middle Sea on the two-mooned world of Trascera. Wracked by nearly four decades of civil war, the once mighty Tieran Empire staggers down a path leading either to rebirth or destruction. The War of Houses pits the most powerful of Tieran nobility against one another in a struggle as interminable as it is bloody. In a far-flung Tieran territory, three friends come of age to face their uncertain future. Mat, the apprentice blacksmith, must answer a call to duty while his intended, Bodewhin, and Jaryd, an ambivalent student of law, face the twin coils of witchcraft and sorcery. Will Jaryd's new love interest to a young girl from a different culture and Mat and Bodewhin's love for each other survive the forces that threaten to tear them apart? Meanwhile, battle-weary Tieran soldier Quintus Glabrio Jens is caught up in the travails of civil war as he struggles to reconcile duty and conscience. Simple enough for a thoroughgoing professional, until he encounters a black-eyed beauty and the unthinkable. A sudden and unexpected end to the War of Houses sets into motion a sequence of events none could have foreseen. Citizens of the empire find themselves poised upon the precipice of rapid, widespread change. The world in which they were raised, the one their parents knew, and their grandparents thought would last forever is about to crumble. Only the most able will rise to meet what destiny so reveals.

Change is coming to the Highlands of Kylgahra on the two-mooned world of Trascera. Two young Kylgahran clansmen face an uncertain future. While running for his life from border raiders, Sheriff Ranyl Emyrt stumbles into an ancient tomb where he finds a sword imbued with powers unknown. Bloodthirsty borderlanders and magic swords are the least of his worries though, for he has women in his life. There's Meggie who wants to kill him, his fiancé, Helyn, who may be more, interested in another, and the Ryan heiress, Tessymir, whom his father is scheming for him to marry. His father wants her title for any grandchildren and is willing to meet Ryan's brideprice. Ranyl is, torn between a sense of duty and the sudden longing for a fast horse and an open road. Seeking adventure, Aeryk Emyrt joins a cattle drive to the distant city of Cos. Evading murderous bandits and hostile tribesmen, he helps rescue a kidnapped farmer's daughter along the way and then encounters a raven haired singer and an amber eyed elf. A family keepsake turns out to be a magic talisman and comes in handy amid a city full of rogue sorcerers and thieves. His courage tested, Aeryk finds himself committed to guiding a band of Elven mercenaries on a secret quest without knowing their reason for going or why mysterious forces seem determined to stop them. The two young men share a common name, but the bond between them runs deeper, for kinsmen they are, a birthright that will mold the destiny of their people.

Battle summer rages north of the Middle Sea on a two-mooned world called Trascera. Sporadic skirmishing along the border between the Kingdom of Syrdis and the Tieran Empire has evolved into full-scale war. General Quintus Glabrio Jens seizes upon the element of surprise to launch a daring offensive. A brave gambit, but the outcome remains an open question. For the men under Glabrio's command, including Mat Bayrd and the rest of the Three Rivers archers, the answer seems destined to be written only in blood. Whatever danger Glabrio faces in combat with the Syrdisians pales in comparison to his illicit romance with Princess Lydia Sylvus Gant, younger sister of Gaius Sylas Endryk, the hard-eyed emperor of Tier. Qwyk the Thief has proven a resourceful, if somewhat reluctant, spy. Qwyk's had a bellyful of soldierly derring-do and is anxious to return to civilian pursuits. His continued association with the beautiful but enigmatic Alyira Solys, protégé to the cold-hearted sorcerer, Elyas Warron, likely guarantees Qwyk's non-military activities will be no less hazardous. Bodewhin Ware and Jaryd Hume, accompanied by legendary sorcerer Sebastyn Card embark upon a quest that leads them to the site of the lost city of Mayne. Amid the ruins, they are confronted by an evil as potent as it is ancient. A reunion foretold awaits Bode, and Sebastyn too is destined to encounter a shadow from his past in a moment he has both longed for and dreaded for more than a century. To the soldiers of the empire, duty is all, and their travails reflect upon a world swept by rapid, widespread change. Choices matter amid the tumult, more than in less turbulent days, and some have hard edges, propelling those courageous enough to make them into the most daunting of consequences.