Volume I: The Return Of The Oracle:
The epic tale of the Negus Dynasty, the 'Imperial Crime Family’.
A ground-breaking tale of despotic empires, political chicanery and passionate love set for the first time in a mythological land representing Africa. This tale of Romanesque empires, Tudor style dynastic rivalries, Persian sized armies, Egyptian scale grandeur, and imperial competition evocative of the nineteenth century is for all who enjoy literature. Beneath political manoeuvring, dynastic rivalry, marauding hordes, divine oracles, and swashbuckling soldiers is a subtle story of love and family in the midst of a land approaching its death throes. Elegantly written, by a writer steeped in historical knowledge, Crowns of Amara is an exceptional political thriller, which is the first of its kind.
The city of Shazaria has expanded its borders to dominate large parts of the land, through ruthless military conquest and duplicitous political manoeuvring. Peace finally reigns in the Empire after Sixto’s War, granting the Negus family five years of tranquillity to govern their vast dominions.
However, ageing Shazarian Emperor Mansu, who has ruled for five decades, unexpectedly falls ill on the night the city imperial palace is visited by an oracle. As he lies on his death-bed; the battle for succession begins, threatening a return to the days of civil war. The Emperor’s son, the ‘Golden Prince’ Theo, his nephew, ruthless Chancellor, Lord Ratilla and his wife Thema the foreign Empress all have claims to the ‘Lions Throne.’ A war, which engulfs the Negus family, breaks out between the factions, initiating a sequence of events which pulls every kingdom in the entire continent into its destructive sway.
The epic tale of the Negus Dynasty, the 'Imperial Crime Family’.
A ground-breaking tale of despotic empires, political chicanery and passionate love set for the first time in a mythological land representing Africa. This tale of Romanesque empires, Tudor style dynastic rivalries, Persian sized armies, Egyptian scale grandeur, and imperial competition evocative of the nineteenth century is for all who enjoy literature. Beneath political manoeuvring, dynastic rivalry, marauding hordes, divine oracles, and swashbuckling soldiers is a subtle story of love and family in the midst of a land approaching its death throes. Elegantly written, by a writer steeped in historical knowledge, Crowns of Amara is an exceptional political thriller, which is the first of its kind.
The city of Shazaria has expanded its borders to dominate large parts of the land, through ruthless military conquest and duplicitous political manoeuvring. Peace finally reigns in the Empire after Sixto’s War, granting the Negus family five years of tranquillity to govern their vast dominions.
However, ageing Shazarian Emperor Mansu, who has ruled for five decades, unexpectedly falls ill on the night the city imperial palace is visited by an oracle. As he lies on his death-bed; the battle for succession begins, threatening a return to the days of civil war. The Emperor’s son, the ‘Golden Prince’ Theo, his nephew, ruthless Chancellor, Lord Ratilla and his wife Thema the foreign Empress all have claims to the ‘Lions Throne.’ A war, which engulfs the Negus family, breaks out between the factions, initiating a sequence of events which pulls every kingdom in the entire continent into its destructive sway.
