Flores pursues Amina to the Island of the Sun-God, fighting his way across a strange world, and at last returns to Ven to encounter further unfolding of the mysterious relationships that lurk beneath the surface of the alien planet. Book 2 in the 'Maalstrom Series'.
Descendant of colonists from Earth, Flores of the Turlicum, warlord of the city of Ven, pursues the beautiful priestess Amina across the alien landscape of the planet Maalstrom to the Island of the Sun-God. At world's end he traverses the many levels of Ra'Allah, the city in the clouds, further unfolding the mysterious biological relationships that tie together humans, hornets, and silent winged malkops that retrieve bodies of the dead. Robert E. Howard's Conan meets Game of Thrones in this unique thinking-man's visionary and heroic bloody fantasy. Book 2 of the 'Maalstrom Series'.
Published by Dark Lotus Books, Home of the Just Plain Weird.
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Excerpt
The shadows deepened and Flores’ eyes adjusted and he suddenly wondered why he had thought the man was old. The person who stood before him was not old at all, but young. An irsrem dagger glinted with starlight–Flores was glad he had not plunged blindly forward under his first impulse. Behind the first man appeared four more shadows, moving quickly, glass blades flashing.
The first stepped toward Flores.
“So that is it.” The Ven noble nodded. No mystery remained. “Good, then. What better time to die than the present?”
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