A spy’s redeeming mission, a revered leader’s desperate journey, and a warring planet’s only hope.
Kinship spy Jana Randall yearns for a mission to redeem herself and her career after the suspicious death of her partner. When she’s captured on a black ops mission to distant Ico, Jana is forced to share her mind with the memories of a long-dead queen and redemption seems beyond her grasp.
Once escaped, Jana finds herself thrown between a far-reaching conspiracy to reclaim a lost golden age and a bid to control a narcotic that could enslave or liberate the Iconnu. Jana must team up with religious leader Brannon Bayne to seize command of a particulate matter shield before the planet's periodic variable star flares. A dynastic invading group, a drugs and arms cartel, and a secret cabal all struggle with the Iconnu to control the bloodstar plant, whose super anti-oxidant properties affect all life on Ico at the molecular level and whose life-cycle is tied closely to the solar flare.
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This is a finished manuscript ~95,000 words