Voice of Mars

<p><strong><em>Some say you can't go home</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>Some say you just shouldn't</em></strong></p><p></p><p>Damien Montgomery has risen from nothing to become a Hand of the Mage-King of Mars empowered to speak with his King's voice and dispense his King's justice across the star systems of the Protectorate.</p><p></p><p>But the rare magical gifts and iron integrity that have lifted him this far are a frail shield against the ties that bind. Duty to his King brings Damien into the heart of an incipient civil war charged to bring peace between two star systems-one of them his home!</p><p></p><p>On the one hand is a woman and a world he loved. On the other are apparent innocents with evidence of his homeworld's treason.</p><p></p><p>As the evidence and the dead begin to pile up Damien must decide which he trusts most: his evidence his intuition-or his heart?</p>