Secrets of Selparis

 

Fifty years have passed since the tech- nological forces of Earth defeated the mancers of Asparis. Still a junior partner among spacefaring species, the human race seeks equality, but in the process threatens the influence of its neighbors.

Gaining her captainship by inheriting a trader ship from her grandfather, Emily Pierce is quickly written off as incompetent, even by some members of her crew. When events conspire to place her in the middle of a race to a mysterious world, she finds herself pursued by powerful enemies. The course to Selparis is a trial by fire, but also one of fascinating discovery, and along the way Emily learns of her own hidden talents.

If she can survive the tug-of-war between her demure Eldrandii employer, a manipulative human commander, a dispossessed Asparii chancellor, and a pack of hostile mages, she could come away with the long-buried secret unearthed on the beseiged world. Her failure would leave her among the thousands of bodies lining the way of the victors.

 

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