(Fantasy Novel – 2005) – Alevan Tayron has just been assigned to the palace as a guard. Quickly finding himself in the midst of political intrigue and rebellion, he swept under the wing of the king’s most trusted councillor and struggles to keep his head in the turmoil caused by the monarch’s death. Though the name of the planet is not mentioned in the text, the events of this novel take place on the world of Selparis, and this is the first novel that makes use of that imagined world.