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A Kiss for Damocles

J. Kenton Pierce

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#1857 of 8,085 books · #352 in Fantasy

Won the Prometheus Award (2026).

A Kiss for Damocles follows the journey of Shaifennen Roehe, a young homesteader who is the right girl in the right place to serve as a catalyst in her world's, and eventually, her civilization's, restoration. She must adapt from merely struggling to survive in a harsh world as her simple homestead becomes a boomtown, and then the keystone of a restored colonial government. Meanwhile, competing Townie politicians and merchant princes have other plans for Hesperides Colony's future and take a very personal interest in her as she inadvertently kicks over a few of their apple carts. And all the while, sinister, hidden forces watch and calculate and a centuries-old shadow war comes to a head. Shai's universe is one filled with fallen empires, implacable war machines, lost civilizations, hostile xenos, the occasional ancient unspeakable horror, and she's going to bring the ruckus to every corner of it.

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Publisher
Raconteur Press
ISBN-13
9798286375530
Topics
Coming of ageColonization and rebuilding civilizationPolitical intrigueWar and hidden conspiraciesSurvival in a hostile world

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