Who can you trust when your own thoughts are lies?
Just hours before meeting his fiancée for the first time, Prince Lysander Argeadi finds himself leaping out of a space habitat clutching a fusion grenade, his first and last raid as an elite Enforcer ending in spectacular fashion.
He wakes in a hospital bed to find Princess Aurelia already at his side, with a bombshell worse than the one that nearly killed him: something has been messing with his head. An ancient, spiteful intelligence has been editing his thoughts since before he could walk, the same buried mind that killed his father, corrupted the guards sworn to protect him, and hid itself in the very heart of the royal house.
Three ancient intelligences once ruled the Eridu system in secret. One of them is still here. And Aurelia has a warning Lysander can't ignore: if the infestation runs deep enough, her father will burn his kingdom to ash to be sure it's gone.
The war for Eridu will be won or lost inside one man's mind.
Genre: Science Fiction
Just hours before meeting his fiancée for the first time, Prince Lysander Argeadi finds himself leaping out of a space habitat clutching a fusion grenade, his first and last raid as an elite Enforcer ending in spectacular fashion.
He wakes in a hospital bed to find Princess Aurelia already at his side, with a bombshell worse than the one that nearly killed him: something has been messing with his head. An ancient, spiteful intelligence has been editing his thoughts since before he could walk, the same buried mind that killed his father, corrupted the guards sworn to protect him, and hid itself in the very heart of the royal house.
Three ancient intelligences once ruled the Eridu system in secret. One of them is still here. And Aurelia has a warning Lysander can't ignore: if the infestation runs deep enough, her father will burn his kingdom to ash to be sure it's gone.
The war for Eridu will be won or lost inside one man's mind.
Genre: Science Fiction