GALEN’S BLADE
A
STARQUEST 4TH AGE ADVENTURE
The Journey continues!!!!!
By Dragon Award Finalist, Richard
Paolinelli
Released and published
by Tuscany Bay Books!
The book is available digitally in all
platforms!
The journey of
Galen Dwyn continues in the second book of the Starquest 4th Age series.
While Dwyn lies
in stasis, recovering from his injuries in his stand against Harmool's fleet,
Rhea has assumed the title of Regent of Salacia while leading the search for
her missing father, King Iodocus. She is also helping repair the damage done to
the Alliance in her Uncle's and Mother's mad quest to launch a new Empire. A
shocking assassination attempt is thwarted at the last second by Dwyn, who
seems to be a changed man now that he has exited stasis to save his love.
The King's
location is ascertained and a rescue mission mounted to retrieve him from the Wilds,
a lawless area of space. An ambush splits their forces and Dwyn leads the
ambushers away so that Rhea and her father can escape. Before Dwyn can find a
way back to Alliance territory, an old enemy returns from the grave, and hold
Rhea and the King hostage, while triggering a massive insurrection that
overthrows the Alliance and installs a new Emperor.
Dwyn must
now mount a second rescue while finding a way to rally a rebellion against this
threat to peace in the Hominids' corner of the Andromeda Galaxy.
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Galen’s Way! The stunning debut of the series!!!
Millions of years in the future, humanity has been driven out
of the Milky Way and now calls the Andromeda Galaxy home. Lost in their murky
past are the tales of great knights that held the line against the invasion of
a dark force until the rest of humanity could escape their doom. The last and
greatest of these knights was Galen Underwood.
Long after that heroic stand, a mercenary by the
name of Galen Dwyn has been hired to rescue a kidnapped princess. Enticed by a
healthy down payment and a chance to settle an old score, Galen accepts the
job, only to find out it's a lot more than he bargained for.
Soon Galen finds himself weaving and dodging
through a web of political intrigue as the very forces that chase him have set
in motion plans that will throw the galactic alliance into civil war.
To his surprise, he also finds that the rescued
princess might not be quite the spoiled brat he rescued from the clutches of
her keeper.
Accompanied by the princess, his former mentor,
and a snarky AI, Galen sets out to find a way to outsmart entire kingdoms, keep
the princess alive, and avert the deaths of millions.
Of course, he'll also learn the reasons behind
his namesake's chosen path, as he realizes that the only way to win is Galen's
way.
From ReadersFavorite.com 5-star review by Steve
Robson:
Galen’s Way: A Starquest 4th Age Adventure by
Richard Paolinelli is a paradigm shift to a galaxy as distant in the future as
it is in space: Andromeda, a place Captain Galen Dwyn calls home. As a
mercenary in charge of the space ship Tempest, Galen finds himself drawn into
intrigue by the lure of wealth beyond his imagination; a convoluted web of
deceit, treachery, political plots, and galactic forces that will not only
threaten his life but the lives of those he loves and the peace of all
hominids. How Galen negotiates the challenges which are thrown at him will
reveal his character and worth as an individual and will have implications that
reverberate throughout the worlds of Andromeda, and into a future of
uncertainty. Only the climactic end of this fast-paced action-adventure tale
will determine the destiny of Galen’s Way; a revelation unexpected and shocking
in its possibilities.
ABOUT RICHARD:
Richard began his writing journey as a freelance writer in 1984 and
gained his first fiction credit serving as the lead writer for the first two
issues of the Elite Comics sci-fi/fantasy series, Seadragon. In
2010, Richard retired as a sportswriter and returned to his fiction writing
roots. Since then he has written several award-winning novels, two non-fiction
sports books, and has appeared in several anthologies including eight of the
11-book Tuscany Bay Books’ Planetary Anthology Series and five Sherlock Holmes
collections. He also writes a weekly Star Trek fan fiction series, The Calling,
on his website, www.scifiscribe.com.
He has multiple novels planned for release this year including the
upcoming novel, Galen’s Way, a space opera set in award-winning author John C.
Wright’s Starquest Universe and it is due out in just a few weeks. Galen’s Way
is the first of six planned novels connected to Starquest that Richard will be
writing and releasing over the next two years. He also has three other
standalone novels planned for release over the next year.
He also occasionally fills in as a
guest co-host here on The Writer’s Block whenever Jim Christina’s horse runs
off and leaves him stranded in the middle of the desert.
To
request additional review copies or an interview with Richard Paolinelli,
please contact Mickey Mikkelson at Creative Edge Publicity:
mickey.creativeedge@gmail.com / 403.464.6925.
We
look forward to the coverage!
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