Aida: Lost Empire
She was the last heir of a burned world. He was the emperor who burned it, and he took her home as his daughter.
Twenty-five thousand years ago, long before Atlantis, humanity ruled an empire that spanned two suns. Its capital was a sunken city of glass towers on a green Earth with no Moon. Its dark pyramids, edged in gold, glowed with the stories of the gods. And far out at the edge of heaven, the dim companion star the priests call the Black Sun was slowly coming back.
On the shattered world of Kesh, Emperor Ankharos ends a long war in fire and ash. In the ruins of the fallen king's throne hall, he finds a frightened five-year-old girl hiding in a cabinet, and he offers her his hand. Her name is Aida, and she is raised as a princess of the empire.
Ten years later, Aida has a sister she would die for in the proud, dark-eyed Neferai, and a friend she is beginning to love in the young officer Tahren Mos. She studies the old songs of Kesh in the hidden inner world of Agartha. She has also begun asking questions no one will answer. Where does all the gold from the new pyramids go? Why did the emperor's own chronicle get the burning of a city wrong? And why does the empire's oldest and most loyal ally always arrive too late?
Out in the dark star system, the survivors of Kesh are gathering a hidden fleet. When they come to Aida and ask her to take up her birth father's sword, she must choose between the man she loves, the father who raised her, and the people she was born to, while the Black Sun climbs toward the turning of the age.
Inspired by Verdi's opera, Lost Empire is an epic of love, loyalty and buried history, set at the end of a forgotten golden age.
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