The Emperor doesn't need to keep his promises. . . . The competition is over. Susan and Tretan are among the winners and ready to go back home. The promise of freedom was always too good to be true and now that is proven. Instead the winners will be trained as Sicarii, the Emperor's prized assassins.
Every country has had its golden age, when that is depends on who you ask. What if those had all happened at the same time... under one leader? Susan's village has enjoyed being ignored by the Empire other than the taxes they pay every month, but when Germany becomes part of an Emorian competition, Susan and her broth...
In the winter after what was thought to be the end of the world, after all the plants of the earth have died, and most of the population with them, a man by the name of Clive Sparrow discovers the Passer's stone; a crystal capable of destroying the world as they know it. Now he and his family must do everything in th...