Kings, Queens and Colonies eBook - Flame Tree Publishing

“...a masterful epic of exploration and exile.” — Lee Murray, two-time Bram Stoker Award® winner and author of Grotesque: Monster Stories

“Insightful and very entertaining!” - Jonathan Maberry, NY Times bestselling author of Relentless and V-Wars

Of Kings, Queens and Colonies: (Coronam Book 1) is a multi-character tale set in a human future where the politics and players of 16th-century Europe echo humanity's recurring mistakes at another critical crossroads of decision and evolution.

Nearly a thousand years after the Troubles on old Earth, new civilized worlds stand on the brink of war. The planet Enskari, in defiance of tradition and the Prophet in the Temple, has placed Zabel, a woman, on the throne. With the church's support, Brandon of Hyrax prepares an armada to subdue Enskari and unite the system under one rule — his own.

Meanwhile, a group of Enskaran separatists sets out for the system's last unclaimed world, Tirgwenin. There they will find something strange. Something low and binding, subtle and expanding. Something alien. Something truly dangerous.

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