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Summary: What do you do if you’re guilty of a crime, but not the one for which you’ve been convicted? It’s simple: You keep as low a profile as possible and hope for clemency. That’s extremely difficult if you are Aric kan Ingan, once the Emeraunt Galaxy’s Prince of the Realm, and now beneath the lowest rung of Society’s Ladder. Under a sentence of Civil Death, the former Prince Tanist to the throne of Arcanis finds himself experiencing firsthand how the dregs of humanity live, while making major adjustments to his attitude as well as life-style. In an effort to stay alive, Aric is forced to work at tasks no self-respecting (or law-abiding) citizen would touch …while he avoids the Space Guard who have a right to kill him on sight. Aric’s personal morality as well as the vows he’s taken in hopes of being allowed to return to Arcanis will be severely tested as he begins the first steps in the journey fulfilling the rest of the ancient prophecy given to Riven kan Ingan three millennia before. The Twilight of the GodChosen has begun.
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Summary: Aric kan Ingan is heading for a rendezvous with Death, with a detour to Terra at pal Miles Sheffield’s insistence, in an attempt to take his mind off his upcoming obituary. Old prejudices long-buried and culture clashes aside, the planet offers a few things to test his newly-restored integrity, as well as his fidelity to Susan…such as the attention paid to a certain alien by Miles’ foster mother, an attractive but neglected wife. Leaving for Arcanis offers an escape, even if his arrival begins with his arrest and the quickest trial imaginable. The verdict? His former sentence is to be carried out. Immediately. A great deal has changed on Arcanis in the past fifteen years, however. Former best friend Eby now heads the Peace Force and is the True Arcanian Society’s right-hand man. Pallas, the baby-bride Aric left behind, is no longer a child. Inheriting her mother’s beauty as well as a touch of her deviousness, the Princess Royal has the power to save her cousin’s life, for which she expects a great deal more than his mere gratitude. Marrying Pallas means giving up hope of a future with Susan, but it will regain Aric the Throne of Arcanis and revenge against The True Arcanian Society, while freeing Pallas from Eby’s domination. Whatever the choice, someone will win and someone will lose, and the entire galaxy will be affected…but will it be worth it?
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Summary: Arcanis is in civil war. The Margravine has been deposed. A plague rages. Sent by TerraFormation with vaccine to help the war-torn planet, Miles Sheffield is reunited with his best friend and his niece, offering the refugees asylum on Terra. When Pallas and the other women aboard the FSS Clara Barton are abducted and sold into slavery, Aric, Miles and the crew begin a search taking them beyond the Emeraunt Galaxy to the lawless depths of the Fringes. On the desert planet Bel-Ammon, Aric faces an old enemy in a fight to the death to free his wife. When Pallas fatally gives birth to twins, her grief-stricken husband realizes too late that he actually loved the woman he married to regain the throne. In the madness of bereavement, Aric rejects the child causing his wife’s death. Giving her custody to Miles, he takes his son and returns to help rebuild plague-stricken Arcanis. It will be eighteen years before Aric again sees his daughter, but the twins’ reunion is unlike anything expected, because insanity has hidden in the mind of a child and now, nurtured by another’s anger, has grown to adulthood. The Twilight of the GodChosen is complete and the fate of the kan Ingan clan is settled .
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Summary: Twenty-eight years ago, the best man at Margrave Aric kan Ingan’s wedding was given a pass to Aljansur City’s Pleasure Dome. Miles Sheffield redeemed his gift, then returned to Terra, unaware he’d sown a single wild oat who flourished as the Dome’s most famous employee. Returning Aric’s daughter to her father, Miles is back on Arcanis and face-to-face with a son who’s the star attraction at the planet’s largest brothel. Miles expects blackmail, half-brother Mark is delighted to have an older sibling, and Tam simply wants to leave his past behind. Gaining Tam’s custody, Miles takes him to Terra and a ‘normal’ life, but it’s an uphill struggle for father and son. Miles’ wife rejects her new stepson, beginning a messy intergalactic divorce; Mark helps Tam adjust to college life in the worse way possible; and then, there’s the way Tam earns his pocket money… Things eventually settle down and are going well, until… On the way to a party, Tam and Mark disappear, their aircar found abandoned. While their frantic father searches for his sons, aided by the Peace Forces of two galaxies, the brothers are whisked away to a slave emporium in the outer reaches of the galaxy, to be sold as sex slaves. Aware of what happens next, Tam attempts to protect Mark from the coming danger…but the two are separated. With his brother’s fate unknown, it’s left to Tam to survive and find his way back to Terra. Alone.
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Summary: After the loss of his wife, children, and home, Miles Sheffield sees the position as Chief Researcher at the TerraFormation colony on Élysée as a new start in life. Still mourning the deaths of his wife and two eldest sons, newly-abdicated margrave Aric kan Ingan views becoming head of Security on the planetoid a final attempt at closure. Neither counted on being the only men in a colony of fifty-three women, or of becoming embroiled in an intergalactic divorce and kidnapping case…much less being enthralled by the mysterious lure of Élysée’s itself. Two men seek redemption for real and imagined sins, while a jungle sends its eerie messages—a whispered word, the scent of a dead woman’s perfume—intruding into their psyches, offering metaphysical rebirth and a final chance for happiness… …if a threat from Terra doesn’t destroy everything they may regain.
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Summary: Aric kan Ingan is an Exile... Stripped of title, wealth, and citizenship for treason against the Arcanian Empire, a crime of which he is innocent. For a decade, he’s wandered the Emeraunt Galaxy, haunted by fear of instant death, while earning barely enough to survive, performing chores no self-respecting citizen would touch. Destitute and addicted to the two most powerful illegal substances in the galaxy, he finds only one path left open: He enlists as a guard for a Terran mining colony. From his point of view, he’s now hit rock-bottom. Life among aliens is bad enough, but life with Terrans is near-unbearable for the prejudiced former prince whose pride is currently wallowing in the mud…until Aric meets two people who become a special part of his life. Susan Moran is the company physician, a woman with secrets of her own. Miles Sheffield is his former mistress’ brother, a young, brash, wet-behind-the-ears Terran, who is as shocked as Aric when he becomes the Exile’s best friend, especially since their first meeting ended, not with a handshake, but with a fist to the jaw. With Susan and Miles, Aric will experience friendship, passion, and grief, and eventually make a decision affecting the future of the entire galaxy as he unknowingly takes another step in the ancient prophecy of the GodChosen.
