VICTORY HARBEN Fires of Halos Hardcover

When Gridley Wave contact between worlds is inexplicably broken, young physicist Victory Harben returns to her home in Pellucidar, at the Earth’s Core, to help solve the mystery. Soon Victory finds the riddles of her past are hopelessly entangled with the machinations of an ancient and inscrutable queen of the Mahars. Hurled into the cosmic void by the queen, Victory is hunted down across space and time by a vengeful being whose flaming sword absorbs the souls of the slain, delivering them to the ravenous lords of Halos. Bonus Novelette: “Beyond the Farthest Star: Rescue on Zandar” by Mike Wolfer. The Swords of Eternity super-arc of this Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe series concludes here with Victory Harben: Fires of Halos -- featuring the world of Halos from Edgar Rice Burroughs’ unpublished fragment, The Ghostly Script. Includes maps of the planets Beyond the Farthest Star, the planet Uvala and the Omos Planetary System. As Victory races to track down the key to her destiny, a storm of malevolent forces gathers against her, unleashing the secret rulers of the afterlife in an unholy tempest that threatens to shatter reality itself. Rescue on Zandar synopsis: When a hunting party from the village of the Ki-vaas goes missing, the tribe’s age-old customs decree the fate of the hunters is dictated by the gods. But the young woman Tii-laa cannot abide such hopeless dogma. Striking out on her own, she risks her place in the tribe and her very life, facing the planet Zandar’s deadly wilds and savage creatures in a desperate attempt to save her missing tribes people! Cover art by Thabiso Mhlaba.