Dreamcatcher

She has been waiting for her moment for more than twenty Earth-years, but it has never come. Caught in yet another wave of despair and depression, she does something utterly foolish, not to mention potentially suicidal: she contacts her most terrifying enemy, Luis Arroyo, who has been hunting her all this time. Arroyo, known in his Dreamcatcher state as Riparius, has over the years tracked down and slaughtered all those who, along with her, watched as Emperor Necrolius Anaxagorius consumed his daughter Espriella.

But Aubrey of Saturnius' troubles go even deeper than that. She is employed by one who stood in the circle with her that day, the very General of the Imperial Dreamcatchers, Olcas Suarach. Suarach is rumored to be just as deadly as Riparius, and does not think twice about killing to achieve his desired ends, or just for pleasure. He is a true monster, one Aubrey has served as head maid of his household all this time.

And now, another problem: for a new young maid is showing Dreamcatcher abilities. If Suarach finds out, the young woman will die horribly at his hands, just another one of many he has murdered over the years.

Aubrey knows that time is running out. As the Saeire Insu's Revolution gains steam, Suarach's temper is slipping, his bloodlust climbing by the day.

The noose is tightening. What must Aubrey do to survive and to save those innocent others with whom she labors to keep Master Suarach's country manor spotlessly clean?

Enjoy the next novel in the continuing saga of Melody and the Pier to Forever!

Author's Notes: I thought about this novel for more than fifteen years before I started writing it. It's a deeply consequential story, one whose happenings end up reverberating around the whole of Aquanus.

Aubrey Sintaur saved Kaza Lucanson. Once an Imperial Sodessi, a member of the Imperial Secret Police, she escaped the Imperials only to find out that Luis Arroyo was with the Saeire Insu, and wouldn't hesitate to kill her if he discovers her whereabouts.

Aubrey's destiny is greater than she can possibly imagine. I have loved writing her story.

Enjoy.

Otoro Queril is feared by his fellow Tracluse. As an executioner for Necrolius Anaxagorius' Imperium, it's Otoro's job to kill those poor souls brought to his chopping block, and to do it as efficiently and quickly as possible. No one in the Imperium does it better.

Otoro Queril does not tire. He does not complain. It is whispered that he is a demon in a human's body.

But Otoro Queril is no demon. And he isn't a Tracluse either.

He is, however, a Saeire Insu warrior, and was sent by the King of the Saeire Insu, Conor Kieran Faramond Benedictus I, on a mission of espionage and mercy.

It's a mission Otoro Queril has undertaken for almost twenty Earth-years.

But things are changing. Perhaps he is finally tiring. He doesn't know. After meeting a young woman condemned to be a prostitute for the Lord of the Demons, something inside him snaps. With the help of two slaves, he embarks on what will be his final quest of mercy.

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