collecting and preserving unique and valuable plants and often establishing them in cultivation back in their home lands

Readers will discover: CTU History and Hierarchy (including floorplans and evacuation procedures)

so he can only communicate through the written word or speech apps

of existential doubt and model rocketry

an unusual son-and-mother team who draw him into their lives

Engines of Empire (The Age of Uprising, Book 1) The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever collecting and preserving unique andThe nation of Torwyn is run on the power of industry, and industry is run by the Guilds. Chief among them are the Hawkspurs, whose responsibility it is to keep the gears of the empire turning. Thats exactly why matriarch Rosomon Hawkspur sends each of her heirs to the far reaches of the nation. Conall, the eldest son, is sent to the distant frontier to earn his stripes in the military. It is here that he faces a threat he could have never seen coming: