A warrior of seduction with an impossible pregnancy fights for free love despite being haunted by the sins of a past life.

Ishkur, an orphan nostalgic for the heroic roots of his adoptive band of ambitious adventurers, sets out on a redemptive mission to recover the secrets of a forgotten trade route traversing a contested realm. The orders that he finds in his pocket upon waking are always written in the same strange hand, yet he has never met the writer. This time the note says he must join up on the road with an assassin, an old acquaintance he's not quite sure he can call friend. When world shaking events interrupt and strip Ishkur of everything but headstrong optimism, he pushes on, blazing his own foolhardy path.

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Book One of Destiny's Exodus (first third as sample) Naked, with a dead body at his feet and no recollection as to how it got there, Artim is in a world of trouble. Already blacklisted by the establishment thanks to his relationship with the beautiful, rebellious Katelle, Artim's nemesis, Milden, is just dying for an excuse to get rid of him. Ninety-eight years into its thousand year journey, the generation ship Destiny is home to an increasingly repressive system. From his privileged position within that system, Milden hungrily, lustfully watches Katelle as the broken, twisted AI under his command watches all that occurs on board. Through the dangerously subversive recollections of an original crew member, Artim and Katelle begin to discover that everything the system has ever taught them is a lie; and worse, that they in turn have been passing these lies on to their students as truths. With their existence thrown into chaos by what they've learned, the two teachers plot desperately to find a way to take on the might of the propaganda machine controlling them; but imprisoned on the ship itself, there's no escape from the system, and absolutely no room for retreat. Can a spark of rebellion ever grow? Or will the system's spies extinguish even the smallest flame before it can ever take hold? Book One of Destiny's Exodus takes readers on an epic journey through not only space, but also how history can be a tool for manipulation and control. (For the whole book go to www.smashwords.com and search for Destiny's Hand)