Leeland Artra

Thread Slivers: Golden Threads Trilogy Book One Leeland Artra

Publisher Marketing: Set 20,000 years into our future, this high fantasy/hard science-fiction tale spins around Ticca, a young female mercenary out to prove her worth. Although Ticca must live by a warrior's code, she's willing to cut corners if it brings her the fame she craves. She hopes a job to spy on assassins and worse - a job from her first important client - will make a name for her, but that ends unexpectedly when she's forced to kill the assassin she was hired to watch. Her misfortune leads her to a new client, the rich, fastidious new journeyman mage, Lebuin. His needs seem simple, he's just discovered - to his horror - that his new rank involves actual journeying. All he wants is to find what's needed to advance to master as fast as possible, and he's willing to spend all he has to make it happen. He's even prepared to trick the personal servant of a legendary wizard to get access to his secret research. Ticca and Lebuin are caught in the crossfire of a vast power game being played by rulers, guilds, and gods. Each step they take raises the stakes, from merely surviving, to stopping an insane elf bent on burning the kingdoms, to dealing with a world shattering mess left untended by the gods for far too long. With a legendary imperial space marine leading the charge to justice, advanced technology being suppressed by the governments, wizards tossing magic, and gods annoyingly pushing people around without explaining a thing, Thread Slivers is the exciting beginning of the Golden Threads Trilogy. Thread Slivers is a 123,500-word epic fantasy/speculative sci-fi novel and the first book of a trilogy set in a distant future consisting of both high technology and magic.