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Overview: Frank lives along the Mississippi River in Wisconsin and has leveraged his many life experiences to write the Dianis, A World In Turmoil chronicles. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, and spent six years in the US Navy chasing Soviet submarines. His love of the sea is reflected in chronicles, a love he has shared with his wife and two girls.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Book #1 – The Foundry
A storm of greed and desire for global domination is rolling across the planet Dianis. The assault crashes against the walls of Wedgewood, an idyllic mountain town. Over the walls, Paleowright soldiers and their troglodyte allies climb and meet the human defenders. In a staggering retreat, the defenders fight the first battle to save their planet from tyranny and galactic exploitation. Outnumbered, the citizens and mercenaries of Wedgewood stand shoulder to shoulder and send a rallying call to their brethren.
For IDB Chief Inspector Achelous, if Wedgewood falls, the plans to protect the planet from Nordarken Mining collapse as well. Those plans rest on the forge in Wedgewood’s foundry.
Ruthless in its insatiable demand for a rare mineral, Nordarken Mining ignores a federation law (ULUP) that protects the isolated, primitive planet. Destroying entire cultures to satisfy the Nordark avarice is just the cost of doing business. Not so for Achelous, a ULUP enforcer; it’s his job to protect the defenseless.
The politics authorizing ULUP are complex, and the Nordarks are masters of manipulation. Ordered to leave Dianis, Achelous and his team face an excruciating dilemma: Obey orders or go rogue and become what they fight against, extrasolars. In a twist, Achelous learns he is not alone. Marisa, a trader princess, and Christina, an Ascalon Defender, respond to Wedgewood’s rally call, but as unlearned provincials, they are ill-accustomed to stellar intrigue.
The defense of liberty starts here, in The Foundry.
Book #2 – The Matriarch
The Matriarch unfolds on the protected planet of Dianis. In a sudden shift of federation policy, the planet is stripped of its treaty observers, but a single team circumvents the recall and stays behind. Love, friendship, and aspirations drive the members of the last remaining Interspecies Development Branch (IDB) team. Avoiding arrest, the team has disappeared, and the Matrincy, the federation council of adepts, has intervened.
Nordarken Mining, a galactic mining conglomerate, seizes on the IDB withdrawal and begins unlawful exploration and extraction of a strategic resource needed in the Turboii War. Before his disappearance, Chief Inspector Achelous had predicted Nordarken Mining would maraud the planet.
Achelous’ efforts to thwart extrasolar incursions attract the attention of the Paleowrights, the major religious sect on Dianis. The Paleowrights covet the ancient technologies of Achelous and assault the same location as Nordarken Mining. The peoples of Dianis are thus faced with two enemies: Galactic conglomerates intent on exploiting resources, and the Paleowrights intent on repressing knowledge.
Alerted to the cosmic turmoil that surrounds Achelous, his lover Marisa learns of his secret: He is not the simple Dianis trader he pretended to be, but is instead an undercover agent for a galactic federation hundreds of years advanced of her own. The race is on, can Marisa unravel the mystery of Achelous’ disappearance in time to save him from Paleowright retribution? Or will he be arrested and mind-wiped by the IDB?
Book #3 – The Citadel
The Citadel, a bastion on the protected planet of Dianis, is the third novel in the Dianis, A World In Turmoil chronicles. Achelous, the architect and orchestrator of the planet’s defense against extrasolars, has been abducted by the Paleowrights, a powerful religious order. Chained, tortured, and carried off to the Empire of Nak Drakas, Achelous’s fate is unknown.
After the mayhem and outrage of Achelous’s kidnapping, Marisa, his mistress and a trader princess, embarks on a mission of restitution. To rescue Achelous, she must go to the heart of her enemy, the Drakan Empire, and save him from Viscount Helprig. The Paleowright clergyman does not care what Achelous may know, just that he has blasphemed the Diunesis faith and shall be hung before the archbishop.
However, the commandant of the Drakan secret service is not so quick to execute. He suspects Achelous is an Avarian, an agent of a galactic federation, the very people the Paleowrights worship as gods.
Amidst the fight against corsairs raiding the planet, attacks by Paleowright armies, and the intervention of the Avaria Federation, Marisa must rescue Achelous, and if successful, can trigger a global war. Can one man be worth that outcome? The answer lies in what he knows.
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