Cover of Five-Twelfths of Heaven

Five-Twelfths of Heaven

Book 1 of the Roads of Heaven series

In a space-faring civilization where a single woman is increasingly sisenfranchised, the star pilot Silence Leigh is defrauded from her inheritance by a greedy competitor. Forced to ally with two men, Silence is dragged into a deadly political struggle, and is tantalized by the hints of the legendary Earth, as well as the dread and the glory of Magi's power. Her dreams of having her own ship and of escape from the Hegemony's oppressions take on new direction and focus when she joins the crew of "The Sun-Treader"

Genre
science fictionfantasyLGBTspace opera
Subject
science
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 339 pages

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