Captain Lorq Von Ray, heir to the fortune of the most powerful family in the Federation of the Pleiades, is possessed with the dream of flying his ship into the churning heart of an exploding sun to harvest the fabulous Illyrion, the most powerful…
Tamina is beautiful, thirty-three years old, and she is from Prague.
She lives in a Western European provincial town, where she works as a waitress. Tamina is a good listener, but is she really listening? The customers she brings coffee and calvados…
The Avoka family is trying to get back on their feet after living under a military dictator for 17 years. Father Theo does not risk writing the memoirs of the former dictator, whom he both despises and admires. Mother Zahra feels isolated and starts…