Chiasma

"Reality is fractal: spheres within spheres.Yet each sentient species calls the inner surface of its own sphere 'infinity'..."The Second Empire spans 31 worlds, sixteen billion souls, with Ashariya Shuriyana its Emperor for the last 247 standard years, the third Emperor of the 8-century strong Irahkhan Dynasty. But a series of events threaten to destabilise Genus Irahkhan: an unprovoked frontier attack, an ancient prophesied demon coming suddenly to life and the Sophon-heir to the Irahkhani throne dying before his time.Could the Imperial Genus be facing its untimely end, with the rival Genus Aethea poised to seize the Imperial throne?For the younger Irahkhani Sophe, the end of their dynasty is unthinkable... impossible! They will see the glory of Irahkhan maintained, no matter what the cost.When a prominent Irahkhani military officer is mysteriously assassinated by Aethean terrorists, diplomatic tensions run high, but is the assassination all that it appears? Why is expert reconstructive surgeon Dr Djanna Liaj engaged by the Aethean Godscion himself to rebuild a mortally wounded patient, without being able to know who the patient is? Why does she become attached to this man in ways she cannot either explain or justify, risking everything she has achieved, as if their destinies were somehow pre-determined?The citizens of the Empire see no further than their mortal horizons, but there are those in the Empire who see farther: the ancient Ethrakkien Order hears the demon awakening, knows its true nature and its purpose, and knows that in order for it to have appeared now, it must have been summoned. But who... or what... has summoned it?The first book of the Rhadyuas Cycle trilogy sees a weaving together of events across the fabric of the Second Empire that will forever alter its nature, and that set the stage for an upheaval that none could possible have foreseen.