Publisher's Synopsis
Tremont Casteel has a checkered past-gay, ne'er-do-well, Catholic school reject, brothel boy, former addict, now he seeks to live life on the straight and narrow by becoming an agent for the Imperial Intergalactic Intelligence Service. After a failed mission, his lover wants him to quit the agency and move with him to Kitanko, an island paradise on Ganymede, in order to escape intolerance in the kingdom-then horror strikes. Tremont is thrust into a race against time to find a massive, hidden detonator concealed somewhere in the galaxy before millions are killed. He can trust no one.
Tremont goes rouge, he enlists the help of the Black Narcissus, an infamous jewel thief and leader of the revolutionary group called the Red Rogues. As colonies across the Empire are threatened, Tremont, follows a trail that leads him from a secret nuclear factory on Io to a floating fantasy land in space, called Aljana, ruled by the very sexy and troubled sultan Jorvan Zayn. As truths are revealed, Tremont realizes that he has been the one trapped all along in the crossfire between desire and duty and an intolerant kingdom. He must reckon with his troubled past and this harsh reality-blind ambition often means the utter eradication of one's most precious truths. PEARL OF HEAVEN is the second book in a pulp fiction space opera series, Stories from Outer Space.
