Aware that he is unprepared for the position and a political pawn, he nonetheless accepts the post in order to investigate his sister's death. Akhio, an ungifted, passive male becomes Kai when his sister dies. Rho, a parajista Novice with hidden powers and a peaceful future prognosticated by Seers refuses to accept his destiny and searches to change it. Lilia, a young Dhai girl with unknown magical powers crosses worlds and grows up as a drudge until coming of age and deciding it is time to fulfill a promise. This epic fantasy begins with a tight focus on a few characters and quickly expands as some cross paths or veer in and out of each other's lives. After 2000 years, the veils separating the worlds rip, creating doorways between them, leading to chaos, destruction, deceit, betrayals, and war.
Parallel worlds with identical continents and inhabitants begin merging as the fourth star Oma, the worldbreaker, ascends in one world just as another is torn apart.
(Sept.The Dhai know their world as Raisa where magic is ruled by three ascendant and descendant stars: Para, Tira, Sina. Readers will blaze through this opening installment and eagerly await the promised sequel. Hurley ( Rapture) reuses old tropes to excellent effect, interweaving them with original elements to create a world that will fascinate and delight her established fans and appeal to newcomers.
Young Lilia, orphan of a slain blood witch, makes the disquieting discovery that the attackers and victims are reflections of each other, seen through a glass darkly. As baleful Oma rises, raiders search for forgotten knowledge, assassins strike down rulers, and entire cultures are coldly targeted for genocide in the name of realpolitik. When the star Oma returns to the sky after two millennia, it brings calamity, death, and the fall of civilizations. Across the realms of the Dhai and beyond, people’s lives are ruled by the changing stars those whose star is ascendant gain grand powers and prosper, while those whose stars are in decline are consigned to more humble roles.
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