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"strong SF"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted March 1, 2003

On the planet Delos, The Eubians exchange prisoner Prince Eldrin of the Skolian Empire for Jai Rockworth the heir to the Eubian Concord. Although nobody knows it, Jai, who will be the next Emperor, is related to all the high powered rulers in the Skolian Empire. The Skolians Read more...

"Intelligent and complex SCI-FI with excellent writing continues the Skolain Saga."
Reviewed by Sue Burke
Courtesy Old Book Barn Gazette
Posted May 18, 2003

Although the Radiance War has ended, violence still erupts between the Skolian Empire and the Eubian Traders. Their moralities light years apart, peace remains not only out of reach, but undesirable, to many on both sides. Now Eube is to have a new Emperor, Jaibriol III, and for once peace Read more...

Honorable Mention for 2003 PEARL Award
- Best Science Fiction Romance

Summary

At the age of seventeen the young nobleman named Jaibriol Qox becomes ruler of a vast galactic empire - and loses everything he has ever valued. Born of a clandestine liaison between a renegade daughter of the Skolian Imperialate and a scion of the genetically engineered Eubian Traders, Jai Qox grew up in exile, unaware of the powers that coursed through his noble blood.

In the waning days of the bloody Radiance War that ravaged the galaxy, Jai was captured and returned to the Traders to play a role as a puppet Emperor in their scheme to consolidate their domination of space.

Now Jai must walk a razor's edge, to seize the power that is his by birthright without succumbing to its dark seduction and wield it for the good of all, and to avert a conflagration that threatens to engulf a thousand worlds.