The Waypoint to ultimate power!
Over a millennium in the past, humans fleeing Earth in slower-than-light
vessels discovered the Waywork, an abandoned alien superhighway system
that allows instantaneous travel from star to star. The problem: there
are a finite number of Waypoint nodes - and the burgeoning population of
humans is hemmed in as a result. Furthermore, humanity is divided into
contending Starstates. One of the strongest is based on an oligarchy of
ruling families, but still mostly democratic. The other is a
totalitarian nightmare. War seems inevitable.
Now a new Waypoint appears. Might it lead to the long-lost creators of
the Waywork? If so, there may be knowledge and technology that will tip
the balance in the coming war.
Three people race to make it to the new Waypoint - and beyond. These
include Wyodreth Antagean, the reluctant son of an interstellar shipping
magnate, Lady Garsina Oswight, the daring daughter of a royal family,
and Zuri Mikton, a disgraced flag officer seeking redemption. They are
facing an implacable foe in Golsubril Vex, a merciless, but highly
effective, autocrat from the Waywork's most brutal regime. Vex is
determined to control the new Waypoint and whatever revelation or power
lies on the other side.
Now humanity's fate - to live in freedom or endless dictatorship -
depends on just what that revelation might be. And who gets there first.
