Empyrean

Book Three of the Brin Archives

by Jim Cronin.

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In this conclusion to The Brin Archives, Maliche Rocker must risk everything including his family’s reputation and even his life, to uncover the truth about the Skae. For over three hundred years the Brin have believed the Skae to be their benefactors, and the race that rescued them from extinction. But recent revelations by a group of young Kolbri, the offspring of Brin and Kolandi mating, tell a disturbingly different story.

Three Kolbri, including Maliche’s son Jontar, must use their unique abilities to telepathically connect with technology, and discover the truth about the Skae once and for all by undertaking a perilous journey through thousands of years in space and time, unravelling the history hidden from them by Skae. During this expedition, Jontar and his two companions must encounter the Gorvin, hated enemy of the Skae and supposed instigators of the current interstellar war.

What turned the Skae and Gorvin into mortal enemies? What is the true cause of the war responsible for the destruction of hundreds of worlds over thousands of years? Will Maliche and his small group find the truth and avert disaster both at home and across the galaxy? Can his wife, Ryma, hold the Brin government together long enough for Maliche to succeed? Only time will tell.

A Word from the Author

In this exciting conclusion to The Brin Archives, we pick up only moments after Recusant ends. Suspicions arise that the Skae, hero aliens from book one, are not who they seem. An interstellar war rages, and the Skae want to recruit young Kolbri, children of pairings between Brin and Kolandi parents, who have unique abilities to interact with technology. Young Jontar Rocker, son of Maliche, warns that all is not what the Skae have said and he hatches a plan with his father to learn the truth. This story follows Jontar and his team as they travel back in time to the beginnings of the war between the Skae and the Gorvin. The youths must uncover the truth of what began the war and if the Skae’s plan to build a black hole engine is something that will truly provide unlimited free energy to all, or, as the Gorvin claim, destroy an entire sector of the galaxy.