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Okal Rel Universe
Ten Novel Series
- The Courtesan
Prince - The status quo is shaken up when egalitarian Rire discovers the Sevolite Empire and exposes all to irrefutable proof that a commoner sword dancer is actually racist Sevildom's long lost crown prince, Amel.
Relationships destined to influence history are forged, and the stage set for power struggles in Amel's name. (Published 2005)
- Righteous Anger - Sevildom reacts with the
threat of a crusade against Rire, pitting father against son in the
influential House of Nersal and straining the moral authority of Okal
Rel to keep conflict within bounds compatible with life in the empire. (Published 2006)
- Pretenders - In the wake of tragic set backs,
progressive leaders find the strength, through friendships, to establish
a new order at court, negotiated by the apparently powerless Amel. One
of them is the legendary Ameron, returned from time slip. (Published 2008)
- Throne
Price - Erien's returns to his homeworld to champion his Reetion
foster father, and causes the collapse of the uneasy truce among Sevildom's
leadership in a series of shocks that end in sordid horror for some
but overall affirms the power of Okal Rel to keep the peace for
all. (Published 2003)
- Far Arena - Rire resists diplomatic relations
with Sevildom by claiming the moral high ground, thus straining the
patience of House Nersal and dragging Amel through intense public interest
in him as a victim of Sevildom. (Published 2009)
- Avim's Oath - Rejected by Erien, and challenged by Perry to realize the dream of making the Blue Demish a court power, Amel competes with Luthan to win Demora in a bizarre competition to identify which of them is ‘nicer’. Luthan struggles with her love of Erien and Vretla just wants to get pregnant by either Pureblood. When Amel’s new body guard, Alivda, chucks Vretla out of Amel’s bedroom, she joins Erien on a mission to rescue his young nephew, Leksan, who is kidnapped by a rival clan. Amel and Erien struggle to cooperate for the greater good while competing for love and for oaths. (Coming August 2010)
- Healer's Sword - Amel must pick a bride to satisfy the League of Demish Women for the Betterment of Men, aided by match-maker Princess Samanda O'Pearl. Although Amel is making progress with becoming respectable, Midlord liege Ilse Marin, from a family long loyal to Ev’rel, is reluctant to swear to him. Instead, she gets involved with Erien's Academy of Science for Sevolites where she meets Horth Nersal. Erien’s work and Horth’s literal mindedness, get Horth and Ilse into big trouble with the Lion Reach Demish on a mission to bring staff for the Reetion Embassy to Gelion. Everything comes to a head at the first Cultural Exchange with the Reetions, on Barmi II. (ETA April 2011)
- Gathering Storm - Nesak aggression and Silver Demish inertia threaten the new order, pushing Amel's diplomacy to the breaking point as he shuttles between SanHome and elaborate Demish events at court, organized by Samanda. Erien contends with the good and the bad of eroding old mechanisms of social control when a transgression by one of his student rebounds on the orphanage complex where his academy is housed. Horth and Ilse fight a love that could destroy them both. (First Draft finished 11/03/2010)
- Holy War - Hard earned stability collapses with the fall of Herver Nesak’s theocracy on SanHome, forcing the empire’s reformers to set aside cherished plans in order to unite against a common foe as a new Nesak War plunges Sevildom into horrors that Okal Rel can no longer prevent, separating families and racking up a demoralizing death toll. Horth, Vretla and Alivda hold out against bad odds as Amel and Luthan strive to bring the Silver Demish Fleet into the war before it is too late. And the next generation pitches in ...
- Unholy Science - Power exerted through bioscience was the greatest evil known to Okal Rel for a thousand years. Now medicine is honorable once more. But just when a war weary Sevildom least expects it, the past lashes out from the Reach of Luverthan. Can the tired and disillusioned leaders of change keep their heads? Or will history revert to a cycle of abuse punished by righteous anger, once again.
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