Bringer of Chaos: Forged in Fire, a Science Fiction #Romance by #MFRWAuthor Kayelle Allen

Thank you for inviting me to share my new book with your readers, Kris. Forged in Fire is the second book in my Bringer of Chaos series. The hero, Pietas, has been in multiple books and will be in many more. He's the king over the immortal people in my science fiction universe. I wrote the first book to try and understand him. I had planned him as the villain in a book but he just wouldn't act like one. It was seriously messing with my mind that no matter how I wrote the book, I could not get Pietas to behave. Finally, it dawned on me I might not know him well enough.

Research, rereading, asking my readers and my beta readers -- after about a month of soul searching, I sat down to start writing Bringer of Chaos: the Origin of Pietas. I thought it would be one book, over and done. Hah! Pietas was by no means that simple. Once I started writing, I soon saw that this was going to be a series. I am already working on book three, Watch Your Six.

I'll share a scene from the opening of Forged in Fire. In it, Pietas and the search party sent to find him have stopped their upward mountain trek for a short break. Prior to their reunion the previous day, Pietas had spent a year in confinement, hands bound behind him. He'd been starved to the point of death, but because he's immortal, could not die. Although he has healed since, the brutality left a lasting toll on his once robust physical body. He constantly shields and projects an image of himself as strong and healthy, but as they prepare to get underway, he unwittingly reveals the impairment.

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Wincing, Pietas stretched to ease cramps in his back.

His sister stood. "Tas!" she called up to him. She'd started using her childhood name for him since they'd reconnected the day before. "Are you hurt?"

A quick telepathic scan from Joss swept over him before he realized it was there. Pietas had still been a teenager when she'd trained him to shield his mind from those with her gift. Not that he'd ever been able to block her. She was far too powerful, but today, she'd read him with no more difficulty than a hunter spying trail signs. He'd been near no Ultra telepaths for over a year.

His affinity with Six had made him careless and he'd neglected the basic lessons Joss had taught him.

It wasn't a lack of trust. Trust had never been an issue with Joss.

He treasured her, but he ought not to have been so unguarded and open. Vulnerable.

"Pietas." Joss stood. The waves of emotion he picked up from her held love and concern in equal measure. And a bit of disappointment. "You're injured."

He ducked his head like a schoolboy who'd forgotten his lessons. Admit mortals had damaged him? Never. Neither would he lie about it. He'd take better care to hide the pain.

"Don't worry about me." Whistling, he circled a finger in the air. "Let's go! Long climb ahead." He leaped down from the rocks. "Joss, you lead." Last thing he wanted was her behind him, using him as an object of focus.

What telepaths focused upon, they controlled.

Bringer of Chaos: Forged in Fire

When the immortal Pietas is marooned on a barren world with no food and few survival tools, he knows it could be worse. He could be alone. But that's the problem. He's not.

Half a million of his people sleep in cryostasis, trapped in their pods and it's up to Pietas to save them. But before he can, he must take back command from a ruthless enemy he's fought for centuries. His brutal, merciless father. Immortals may heal, but a wound of the heart lasts forever...

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Kayelle Allen writes Sci Fi with misbehaving robots, mythic heroes, role playing immortal gamers, and warriors who purr. She's a US Navy veteran and has been married so long she's tenured.

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