The Thucydides Trap

<p>Thudydides Trap: A point when one great power threatens to displace another war is unavoidable....</p><p>Thracius Tracy Belmanor has struggled to do his patriotic duty in the wake of the loss of the love of his life the Empress Mercedes de Arango. Amid a desperate war the Solar League cannot afford his grief not the political instability of admitting the depth of their relationship.</p><p>It is for duty alone both as a soldier and a father that Tracy has entered into an arranged marriage that makes him part of the royal family and will hopefully stabilize the throne even as civil war looms.</p><p>However a new danger has been revealed that will lead to extinction on a galactic scale unless the humans can find a way to defeat the looming threat. Not only from this mysterious force destroying all in its path but also from a secret about the human race itself.</p><p>Against a backdrop of war and loss can Tracy and Mercedes ever find their way back to each other?</p>