A vivid, mysterious and richly-detailed epic set against the backdrop of an unthinkable past.
A world whose foundations are layered atop eons of tragedy. An empire poisoned by the hideous ambitions of its past. Ancient technologies run forgotten beneath the surface of the present, wrenching this, the Fourth Age, towards a catastrophic finale. It is the hour of abominations, and of unsuspecting heroes destined to be drawn into the cruel mysteries of their times…
The Emperor Garstazu’s maddened pursuit of the brother he deposed—the so-called “Hidden Emperor”—has led him to raze half a continent, though to no avail. With his brother still at large and the empire of Sophothera now teetering on the brink of collapse, his Vizier, the terrifying eunuch Gai-Loh, contrives an audacious plan to stave off the realm’s implosion: the Fleet of the Five Winds, an expedition of colossal treasure ships that will bring the powers of the Churning Sea into vassalage beneath a wave of gold and glory, and ferret out the Hidden Emperor at last.
In Part 1: South, Josephine, the child of a conquered nation, is delivered to the capital as payment for her kingdom’s peace. Imprisoned within the Eternal Library hovering over the metropolis of Cidoreis, she delves into the lost knowledge of mankind’s past, cultivating her gift of perfect memory as a path towards escape. Josephine’s sole hope of freedom lies in the Fleet’s success but, to grasp it, she must confront the vast conspiracies surging beneath the facade of peace, at the heart of which nests the dreaded School of the Helix: an ancient order of geneticists who will stop at nothing to command her power, and whose tendrils clutch at every shadowed corner of the empire.
Fleet of the Five Winds is a science-fantasy epic told in five parts: a vivid and richly-detailed world filled with wonder, danger and mystery, set against the backdrop of an unthinkable past.
