Subsys: Volume One

Teku is paradise — if you don’t look too closely. Peace there rides on the Eternal Divine, a power that stretches across the stars and keeps order from cracking. When enemies from beyond the border decide that harmony is the first thing worth breaking, Teku’s guardians make a bargain they may not survive: they call on an ally no one trusted, and the war between order and chaos stops being theoretical. What is paradise actually worth? Can harmony hold when evil refuses to stay buried? And when the bill comes due, who pays? Dark science fiction laced with philosophical fantasy — divinity and deception, rage and redemption — for readers who like their speculative fiction with cosmic dread and moral teeth. Think Dune, Gene Wolfe, Peter Watts.