Mountain of Mars: 8 (Starship's Mage)

The Mage-King of Mars is deadChaos rocks Olympus MonsA new monarch must rise - but she does not stand alone!As the celebration of the victory at Legatus cools a shuttle accident claims the lives of the Mage-King of Mars and his heir. The Crown and the Mountain fall to the Mage-Kings daughter sixteen-year-old Kiera Alexander. She recalls Damien Montgomery her fathers First Hand to stand as her Lord Regent.The pair are unprepared to govern but are thrust into the heart of Protectorate politics as the Mage-King had left behind everything from an unfinished war to an incomplete new Constitution.Even as they get a handle on the list Kieras father left them Damien is grimly certain of one thing: when it comes to the deaths of Kings he doesnt believe in accidents.