Slave Girl of Nenuphar

As the unstoppable Atkoi horde advances relentlessly into Imperial space, those caught in its path pay a terrible price for the Empire's weakness. New Wessex is pillaged, its people massacred and its young women 'harvested' to serve in military brothels. Those who flee the advancing enemy fare little better. Refugees face being robbed, murdered or sold into slavery. On Nenuphar, a young woman sold to be trained as a concubine in the Emperor's harem, finds herself fleeing through the darkened corridors as Atkoi berserkers plunder the Imperial capital. And on Ziandakush, Princess Athanasia pays the inevitable price for her treachery. And Kyra faces a terrible dilemma: to suffer a horrible death, or confess to a crime she did not commit. One man has a plan to stop the Atkoi: Admiral Giorge Barklay. But Barklay cannot possibly anticipate Kyra's courageous action or the consequences it will have for all humanity. "TRIUMPH AND TREACHERY, WAR AND REVENGE: A ROLLERCOASTER OF EXCITEMENT, FROM THE EMPEROR'S HAREM TO THE PLEASURE HOUSES OF AKKADIS... MURDER AND BLACKMAIL BENEATH ALIEN MOONS... SPARROWHAWK'S MASTERWORK REACHES ITS SPECTACULAR CONCLUSION IN THIS THIRD VOLUME."