The Colplatschki Chronicles (1-10) by Alma T.C. Boykin
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Overview: Alma grew up on the Great Plains and prefers to live where she can see the weather coming. She escaped academia twice, has held jobs ranging from lab tech to pilot, and is currently pretending to be a respectable citizen and model for the youth of America. Many of her books and stories draw on Central and Eastern European history, even though she is, officially, an Americanist. She sings, stargazes, cooks, reads anything that stands still long enough and has words on it, travels, and wages a losing battle against the forces of garden entropy.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
#1 – Elizabeth of Starland
Stubborn as a mule? No, stubborn AND her mule.
Colonial Plantation LTD. abandoned ColPlat XI, writing the planet off as a tax loss after a series of severe Carrington-type events. Now, four hundred years later, Laurence V of Frankonia wants to write Elizabeth von Sarmas out of his kingdom, but like her Lander ancestors, Elizabeth refuses to roll over and die.
To survive, she needs to cross the continent, thread her way through a holy war, and find friends in the Eastern Empire—an impossible task for a sheltered gentlewoman. Or is it? Never underestimate a woman with a mission and a mule.
#2 – Elizabeth of Donatello Bend
Elizabeth won. Now what?
She survived a ride across the continent, battles with the Turkowi, and political intrigue. Now Elizabeth just wants to settle down and do what Godown called her to do. That is, if she can discern what He desires from her, while taking over her enemy’s former estate and bringing it back to life, learning how to train and lead men in formal battle, and fending off the increasingly interesting Archduke Lewis. A diplomatic wedding trip to the Kingdom of Polonia reveals new rumors about Elizabeth’s unfitness and disloyalty, rumors that may jeopardize the Empire when the Frankonians and Turkowi next strike.
Trust in Godown—but keep a loaded crossbow.
#3 – Elizabeth of Vindobona
The fate of the Empire rests with Elizabeth von Sarmas.
In the ten years since she fled to the Eastern Empire, Countess Colonel Elizabeth von Sarmas has risen to be one of Emperor Rudolph’s most skilled commanders. Ably assisted by Lady Ann Starland and Lazlo Destefani, she’s fended off the amorous attentions of Archduke Lewis, thus far. But after losing a political battle, Elizabeth and her men find themselves at the wrong end of the Empire when disaster strikes. Court intrigue and surprise proposals fade into nothing when the Turkowi launch a do-or-die assault on the Empire.
And King Laurence has one last dagger in his sleeve, one that may accomplish what ten years of warfare could not.
#4 – Elizabeth and Empire
Glory fades but enemies last forever.
Imperial War Duchess Elizabeth von Sarmas returns from campaigning in the Thumb to find a new country on the Empire’s western border, and rumors of intrigue swirling around the Imperial court. Emperor Thomas, young and untried, wants nothing to do with his father’s councilors and commanders, instead listening to younger men, men with plans of their own. As King Laurence of Frankonia sets a trap for the new emperor, Elizabeth’s enemies wage a private war, turning her monarch against her and threatening her marriage, her home, and her life. Can Elizabeth find a way to save her husband and the empire she swore to serve, as the whole world turns against her?
She’ll gain the victory – or die trying!
#5 – Peaks of Grace
Before Elizabeth von Sarmas came Odile Rheinhart and Marta and Edmund de Sarm . . .
Stone Walls: Marguerite Thomasina Antonia de Sarm’s father and maids trained her for life as wife, mother, and Lady Sarm. Lovely, practical in the extreme, sheltered behind the walls of Sarm Hall, Marta de Sarm harbors no ambitions but many illusions. Her husband’s apparent treachery shatters those illusions, forcing her to take up power in her own name. Can she trust her father’s men when Phillip of Frankonia, richest man in Colplatschki, pounds on the gates?
Custom’s Walls: In the village below the Hall, Odile Rheinhart struggles to find a place in the world. Some villagers call her cursed and whisper about secret sin, others pity her as a pathetic burden. Until the day an accident pulls her out of her sheltered home and into a world she’d never allowed herself to dream of. Do her new ambitions truly reflect Godown’s will?
Sheltering Walls: Two women, very different, both working with their walls. Overlapping duties and fortunes draw Marta and Odile together even as Phillip the Majestic threatens to break their world asunder. Hall and convent, Lady and Sister, Godown’s Grace may provide them strength to retain their freedom. Or destroy all that they hold dear.
For Godown’s Grace shatters hearts and walls.
#6 – Circuits and Crises
Danger wears yellow; duty means death.
Emperor Andrew labors to regain the lost secrets of his Lander ancestors, spending weeks peering at yellowing pages and half-shattered machines. Far to the south, a tide of yellow, color of Selkow the Mighty, builds against the Dividing Range’s eastern slope, ready to overwhelm everything in its path. In between stand the fortress of Sigurney and the patricians of Scheel, merchants more terrified of their new neighbor to the north than of the rising tide below.
When the passes open, three men stand between obsession and destruction.
#7 – Blackbird
How far can duty and anger drive a man?
One man the Turkowi fear above all others. Like the Blackbird of legend, he fights all the creatures of Selkow the Beautiful, braver than any unbeliever had right to be. “Shh, be quiet, or Matyasa will hear you,” Turkowi mothers warn their children.
It was not always so. Once he was Matthew Malatesta, second son of a mercenary, younger brother of the heir to Marteen, grandson of Duke Edmund Ironhand of Sarmas. Matthew aspired to nothing beyond beating the Turkowi and buying a few books. Then the Oligarchs of Morloke drove him into exile.
Thus began the saga of Duke Matthew Charles Malatesta: the tale of the Blackbird.
#8 – Fountains of Mercy
Fires dance in the sky, and the great machines fail.
Colonial Plantation LTD can’t decide what to do with Solana, also called ColPlat XI. Should it be a nature preserve, a living museum of pre-industrial techniques, or a standard colony? As the bureaucrats wrangle, a solar storm disrupts technology and reveals deep rifts between the colonists and their administrators.
Susanna “Basil” Peilov clawed her way out of the slums and wants nothing to do with the Company. Peter Babenburg just wants to build his water system and stay out of trouble. When the sky-fires come, Basil, Peter, and their families and friends stand between the colony and chaos. Company administrators assure everyone that replacement parts and assistance is coming, will come. Without those supply ships from the stars, everything falls apart and the colony will die. All that people can do is wait and hope for rescue.
The administrators never planned on facing a group of engineers, a crazy farmer and his wives, and colonists determined to protect their home. Hope comes from some unlikely places, and courage takes eccentric shapes.
#9 – Forcing The Spring
Too soon grown, too late wise.
Pjtor Adamson Svendborg seethes as his elder half-sister and her favorite play at ruling NovRodi, ignoring corruption and courting danger. Pjtor and his half brother Isaac the Simple must find a way to wrench NovRodi free of her clutches, and of the Harriers who raid, kidnap, and destroy all they touch. Doing so will take Pjtor over the sea to New Dalfa and a new world. Can he learn what he needs, fast enough, to save NovRodi? And to defeat those who prefer the old ways, who would drag his homeland back into the chaos years?
But the damage done to Pjtor the child could bring down Pjtor the man.
#10 – Golden Summer
Early ripe, early rotten, or so the proverbs claim.
Pjtor Adamson Swendborg defeated the Harriers and opened NovRodi to the lands across the White Sea. But his wife has not born another living child, and there are whispers that Godown has cursed her or him. He chafes at the old men and old ways that surround him. He may be emperor, but even he must bend to the will of the nobles and the church. As Pjtor wrestles with his past, he discovers that defeated enemies do not always stay defeated.
In his haste to save his world, Pjtor’s impatience may undo all that he has won so far.
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