Russell's ebook Library
1 - Primary Inversion
Catherine Asaro
Skolian Empire [1]: The Skolian Empire rules a third of the civilized galaxy through its mastery of faster-than-light communication.But war with the rival empire of the Traders seems imminent, a war that can only lead to slavery for the Skolians or t...
2 - Catch the Lightning
Catherine Asaro
Skolian Empire [2]: In the distant future, the Skolian empire rules one third of the human galaxy, and is the most powerful of all.For the ruling family has the power of telepathy, and through it, the ability to communicate faster than light across t...
3 - The Last Hawk
Catherine Asaro
Skolian Empire [3]: Fleeing the heat of battle in a wounded spacecraft, Kelric crash-lands on a proscribed planet where a matriarchy rules through the medium of a complex game. The women in power help to heal him, but destroy his ship and determine t...
4 - The Radiant Seas
Catherine Asaro
Skolian Empire [4]: Living in exile on a deserted planet, Sauscony and Jaibriol, each the heir to an interstellar empire, become entangled in the machinations of the Skolian Empire.Interstellar war erupts and Jaibriol is snatched away to be the unwil...
5 - Ascendant Sun
Catherine Asaro
Skolian Empire [5]: Kelric returns to Skolian space, only to find the Empire in control of the Allied forces of Earth. With little more than the clothes on his back, Kelric is forced to take work on a merchant vessel.But when that vessel enters Euban...
6 - The Quantum Rose
Catherine Asaro
Skolian Empire [6]: Kamoj Argali is the young ruler of an impoverished province on a backward planet. To keep her people from starving, she has agreed to marry Jax Ironbridge, the boorish and brutal ruler of a prosperous province.But before Argali an...
7 - Spherical Harmonic
Catherine Asaro
Skolian Empire [7]: Separated for decades by circumstance and political machinations, the Ruby Dynasty, hereditary rulers of the Skolian Empire, struggle to bring together the tattered remnants of their family in the shadow of a disastrous interstell...
8 - The Moon's Shadow
Catherine Asaro
Skolian Empire [8]: At the age of seventeen the young nobleman named Jaibriol Qox becomes ruler of a vast galactic empire - and loses everything he has ever valued.Born of a clandestine liaison between a renegade daughter of the Skolian Imperialate a...
9 - Skyfall
Catherine Asaro
Skolian Empire [9]: Kurj, a provincial ruler on a primitive planet, is plagued by inner demons. But when he meets Roca, a beautiful and mysterious woman from the stars, he whisks her away to his mountain retreat, inadvertently starting a great inters...
10 - Schism
Catherine Asaro
Skolian Empire [10]: Schism harkens back to the early years of the Skolian Empire, back to the beginning of the war between Skolia and the Euban Traders. Twenty-three years have passed since the fateful vote in the Skolian Assembly that Roca missed i...
11 - The Final Key
Catherine Asaro
Skolian Empire [11]: The Final Key is the second half of the story arc known as Triad, which began in Schism.Schism ended with the Skolian Empire torn asunder by personal conflict within the royal family. With The Final Key, the Skolian Empire comes ...
12 - The Ruby Dice
Catherine Asaro
Skolian Empire [12]: Two men, two empires. Jaibriol ruled the Eubian Concord: over two trillion people across more than a thousand worlds and habitats. Kelric ruled the Skolian Imperialate. War had come before — ten years ago, Jaibriol had lost his p...
13 - Diamond Star
Catherine Asaro
Skolian Empire [13]: Del was a rock singer. He was also the renegade son of the Ruby Dynasty, which made his career choice less than respectable, and gave him more to worry about than getting gigs and not getting cheated by recording companies, club ...
14 - Carnelians
Catherine Asaro
Skolian Empire [14]: Two galactic emperors attempt to end a multi-generation war of the stars without both getting assassinated in the process. The leaders of the Eubian empire and Skolian Imperialate have survived political intrigue, military coups...
15 - Undercity
Catherine Asaro
Skolian Empire [15]: In the galaxy-spanning future, Major Bhaajan is a tough female P.I. who works the dangerous streets of Undercity. Major Bhaajan, a former military officer with Imperial Space Command, is now a hard-bitten P.I. with a load of bag...