About the Book
When Conquerors clash
On the planet Rhui, the Jaran tribes, under the leadership of Ilya
Bakhtiian have ranged far in their campaign to subjugate all who will
not willingly yield to their rule. Yet even as they prepare to besiege
the royal city of Karkand, many another battle is being waged on a far
more personal – and perhaps a more important – scale. For Ilya is
married to Tess Soerensen, a woman born not on Rhui but on Earth, and a
woman, too, who is the only heir to Charles Soerensen, leader of the
failed rebellion against the alien Chapalii Empire and now a duke of
that same Empire.
And Charles has come to Rhui for two
reasons: to reclaim his sister, and to decipher long hidden and
invaluable data about the Mushai, the legendary Chapalii who once led
his own rebellion against the Empire.
But Tess has no desire
to become anyone's puppet, and unless the three can make their own
private peace and agree upon a common strategy for conquest, what hope
do they have of overthrowing an Empire that was thriving before humans
learned to walk erect?
