Turillian Odyssey (Tethys Prequel #3)
The discovery of Tethys...
Liander Olan, an explorer searching for new planets suitable for human settlement found the world he named 'Tethys', when his ship was cast adrift far away from human space; a world both wondrous and impossible; too precious to have its location sold to the greed of the growing ppressive regime keeping human space under tight control.
But fate had other plans...
A few standard years later, Talin Corwin, son of Jack Corwin and Claury Finisterre—Coralia—former soldier, escapee from an escape-proof prison, and now one of the most wanted and evasive of criminal fugitives among the human worlds, falls into a trap laid by the rich and powerful Klaast Turill, who presents Talin and Cassiopeia Seneca, another criminal wanted by the Authority, with two options.
Either:
Be returned to the prison they both escaped from to face tortures even more severe than those they had been subjected to during their previous incarceration.
Or:
Commit an act of sabotage that will not only change the course of human history forever, but also help Turill establish a carefully designed set of 'throwback' societies on a far-distant world.
NOTE: This novel contains love scenes with mildly explicit sexual elements.