(Also available in trade paper as ISBN 1920741704 from Booksurge.com).
The Friends is volume 2 of The Interregnum, Rick Sutcliffe's Irish Christian SF series.
In one generation a close knit group of friends attend Kilkarney Cadet School togrether, only to be torn apart in later years through a misplaced sense of loyalty and the treachery of others. In a later generation, Mara founds "The Friends of the Day" dedicated to upholding the integrity of the Irish throne.
The Friends is alternate-history Irish-flavoured Christian science fiction and is the sequel to The Peace (volume One of the Interregnum). In the decades following the deposition of James IV, High King of Greater Ireland and the Federation of Earths, his descendants and relatives struggle to survive and maintain the Pax Hibernia and counter clan MacCarthy's genocidal high-tech schemes. Katherina Rourke loses everything but her close-knit group of friends when first her mother Iron Kate and then her father Matthew (formerly Donal IV) are murdered. Then the friendships disintegrate, and a later donal uses Sean Reilly to kill Katherina, Jack, and their infant Mara. But none of the three stay in the grave. One plot of The Friends follows Lady Katherina to and through the battle of Glenmorgan as student, soldier, security expert, fugitive, rebel, sailer, adoptive mother, and prisoner. An intertwined story tells of Sean Reilly and his allies in their quest to depose the corrupt donal. A third and later sequence relates the coming to age of Meghan/Mara, as she builds a worldwide organization The Friends of the Day, dedicated to restoring Tara's true throne. London, Moody, Tara, and Penal City are the stages on which the interwoven tales of romance and tragedy play out toward the 2000 nexus and the 2001 culmination of the ban on the throne. --- Volume 2 of The Interregnum.
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When you've just run a priest through and killed him, you need to disappear quickly and rather thoroughly. If you're only fourteen yourself, it's your first serious duel, and you're not even supposed to own a real sword, it hardly matters the priest was false enough to his peace vows that he drew first and tried to kill you. Nor does it help you're already on the run as members of the banished and hunted royal family. By the time anyone at Tara's palace investigated, Meghan and Brian McIlhargey had to be ... well, nowhere would be best.
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