Böcker av Karin Lowachee

In this final chapter of The Crowns of Ishia series, the survival of the Ba’Suon people, their dragons, and the land itself rests on the decisions of Lilley, Janan and Meka as they make their way through the frozen arctic, and possible war.

Twenty-year-old Ryan Azarcon is still healing physically and emotionally from an assassination attempt, coming to terms with life aboard his captain father's exiled military ship Macedon. He's struck up a workable friendship with Jos Musey, a former spy and now peace negotiator with new alien allies and their human sympathizers, of which Jos is a part. Politics is one thing, but trying to navigate the fraught waters of complicated relationships is its own battleground. Especially when the nature of it all begins to unexpectedly change.Under the Silence serves as an intimate continuation to the award-winning novel Burndive, the second published novel in the Warchild Mosaic.

Meka has returned from her exile for an ancient, necessary rite: culling a king dragon of the Crown Mountains. Crossing the plains with Lilley, a veteran of the war that colonised her people, and Raka, a traitor to her people, Meka's journey is filled with dangers within and without. As conflict threatens to reignite, the survival of her people, their dragons, and the land itself will depend on the choices – defiant or compliant – that Meka and her companions make.

Eight-year-old Jos Musey knows little beyond the safe haven of his family aboard the merchant ship Mukudori - until a ruthless pirate destroys his world, slaughtering the adults and enslaving the children. Jos endures a year of terror only to fall into the hands of Earth's alien enemies, far beyond human space. Trained by an inscrutable warrior, Jos becomes weaponized against his own people. Now every new friendship or complicated loyalty might lead to a lethal betrayal, and Jos must choose if he should follow the man who saved him...or save himself.

When Jos' parents are killed in an attack on their trading ship, the boy is kidnapped by the attackers and then escapes - only to fall into the alien hands of humanity's greatest enemies. He is soon coerced into becoming a spy against the human race.