Center Worlds Inferno

With his youngest daughter safe but far away from help, Lord Ryo Camelin is forced to defend the rapidly unravelling Confederacy from two fronts: the ailing Masters, and the newly aggressive United Suns. Balancing his personal needs as well as the needs of the Clans under his protection, Lord Camelin tries to figure out his next moves as the Confederacy fires begun a few short months ago turn into an inferno of destruction.
On board a ship far from everything she has known, young Aya Camelin tries to integrate her lost life as the First Princess to the survivor of pirate captivity. Having to assimilate a T'Ressi Marine, A frontier Pirate, and a dreamer from an unknown species, Aya has her work cut out.
Deposed Lord Emperor Tyo Maselic is a prisoner of the United Suns, set to stand trial for crimes he did not commit, but for which the United Suns have determined to hold him directly responsible for.
Kya Desinlo has arrived safely on Malis, but she carries a secret she does not know herself as she tries to rejoin a society very different than what she grew up with in the palace.
The Center Worlds are burning; that flame threatens to consume everything in an inferno.

Book 3 of the Center Worlds series puts politics front and center as the rivals from the self-destructing Confederacy and the United Suns jostle for the position of who controls the entire region. While the ancient Masters, the Mesotra, plan their own moves to allow the threat of the Chak'zzz to finish their own task. This book continues from Spark and Flame in an effort to tell the entire tale of the Camelin family, and its attempts to keep the remnants of their branch of humanity alive in a hostile pocket of space much closer to the galactic core than Earth is.