A Place I Have Never Been
"War might tear a body limb from limb, she thought as she looked at him, but politics would tear a man from his soul."
Telgora stands on the brink of catastrophe. The country’s fabric wears thin at the seams of love, revenge, and power. In back rooms, burned cities, and mountain hideaways, everyone whispers about coming war. In the south, the young revolutionary, Eilatek, swears vengeance for the death of her parents. In the north, the new, emboldened Socialist leader, Isenhartz, prepares his takeover of the government. In the capital, the fiery Chair of Telgora, Zhaekota, plans to take any means necessary to keep power. Caught in the middle is Fezharek, a Grand Air Force pilot who prepares for war even as she prays for peace. Around them all, crime lords, idealists, pirates, and monarchs promise to have their say. As the pressure builds, and all sides vow victory at any cost, the winners, and losers, of the game for Telgora’s future will be revealed in this debut novel by Justin X. M. Corriss.