Set in a steampunkish world with a superpower starting to fracture, the Unari Empire Trilogy follows characters trying to understand that world and make a way in it for them and their families, all the while uncovering deeply held secrets that might change that world forever.
Gods of the Empire
Aton Askins finds things and people that don’t want to be found, but is barely making a living. Now if he takes a new mission for a mysterious, wealthy patron, to find lost artifacts of the gods who left Oiwa centuries ago, he could make a life for himself and his sick daughter.
Lady Belwyn lost much in the Port Ambs bombing seven years ago – her husband, her right leg, and her confidence. Fitted with a new mechanical leg and taking her first steps back into society, she begins to ask questions about Port Ambs and why the perpetrators have never been caught – questions others don’t want to be answered.
While the Unari Empire begins to pull itself apart, two people will search for their own truths and learn things about their world that will change their lives forever.
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Widows of the Empire
A gilded cage is still a cage. Banished from the capital to her home in Annanais, Lady Belwyn chafes under the restrictions of her handler, who controls what she reads and who she sees. She can’t continue to search for the truth of the Port Ambs bombing if she can’t leave her makeshift prison. Now she’s getting letters from other women around the Empire, other widows, looking for answers, too. Could their shared pain be a way out? A way to help not only her, but those like her, to find answers?
Aton Askins is making the most of his new employer’s largesse, buying a new home and trying to build the family he’s been missing since Port Ambs. Now he’s been tasked with finding the Circle of Rend, another ancient artifact of the departed gods. That will require him to sign on to an expedition in the Southern Islands led by a brutal explorer. He has to do it to maintain his comfortable new life, but what will be the cost? Does he really know what his employer is up to?
As the Unari Empire continues to fracture, Belwyn and Aton are closer than ever to the answers they want, but they may not like the answers they find in the second installment of the thrilling Unari Empire trilogy.
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Heroes of the Empire
The world is falling apart around Aton Askins. His childhood friend is rotting in a cell for a crime she didn’t commit. There are soldiers in the streets of Cye and an army of angry widows waiting outside the city. His mystery employer might be using him to gather artifacts of the ancient gods to build some kind of weapon. Now he’s been given one last job, one last artifact to find, supposedly on a mythical floating island halfway around the world. He needs to stay in Cye to help his friend, but he needs to finish his work so he has the money to take his family away from the city. Most of all, he needs to keep those he loves safe from what’s coming.
The Widows Army is restless and may be slipping away from Belwyn of Annanais. Stuck outside of Cye, unsure of what to do next, she needs to do something, anything, to make sure the promise she made to these women to find answers about their loved ones doesn’t go unmet. When an unlikely ally presents himself, she uses the opportunity to enter the city and finally find the evidence she needs to show the world the truth of the Port Ambs bombing. All the while, the currents of protestors and revolutionaries are threatening to overtake her.
Lives collide and the fate of an empire hangs in the balance in this thrilling conclusion to the Unari Empire Trilogy.
JD Byrne 