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Summary

An "excess" heir to the throne attempts to commit noble suicide in combat and is captured by the telepathic enemy instead.

Stats

Genre: Adult science fantasy

Series length: Five books

Violence: Moderate violence, no unnecessary description

Magic/Supernatural: Moderate, clearly delineated

Romance/Sex: Moderate but clean romantic plotlines; a few minor sexual references

Christian/spiritual element: Overt allegorical elements, beautifully integrated into the story

Recommendation: Fans of science fiction and fantasy or those looking to try out the genre

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Star Wars

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Opening Lines:

Lady Firebird Angelo was trespassing.

Shadowed by her friend, Lord Corey Bowman, she squeezed and twisted through a narrow, upright opening between two dusty stone walls. She'd paced off twenty meters in silence. her eyes had almost adjusted to the fain gray light from ahead and behind. Growing up in this palace, she'd explored it thoroughly and cautiously during her childhood. She hadn't tiptoed between these particular walls since she found the gap, four years ago, when she was fifteen. If she remembered right, then in ten meters more--

Something rattled behind her. 

Firebird (Firebird, Book 1)
by Kathy Tyers

Her death was expected but something more powerful kept her alive.

Lady Firebird was born a princess of the royal family of Naetai. Because of her birthplace in the family, however, her life is expendable. Honorable suicide is the highest calling she could hope to attain. When she is chosen to lead an attack on the neighboring planet of VeeRon her death is expected. She is taken prisoner during the battle and is held by the enemy.

With her own people seeking her sacrifice, Firebird must choose between two worlds before she can carve out her new destiny. This is the story of Princess Firebird's personal spiritual battle and the eternal consequences it has not only for herself but for everyone around her and especially the man who loves her.

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Even rain on wet leaves can sound ominous after midnight. 

Firebird stopped walking and listened intently. The dark hours were slipping away, but she'd awakened with both calves bound up in excruciating muscles cramps. Pausing on her third lap around a long, windowless training room, she felt positive she'd heard something--someone--out in the passway. 

She would've known if it were Brennen. 

Fusion Fire (Firebird, Book 2)
by Kathy Tyers

A new life for Lady Firebird

Lady Firebird didn't fully understand her former enemy, the Sentinel Brennen Caldwell. That might take a lifetime. But she knew enough, loved enough, to embrace his mysteries--and his certainty--and to step out on the frightening path of pair bonding.

Exiled from her royal heritage, she had escaped the terrible fate of her birth as an expendable wastling. She fought heroically to save her adopted world from destruction. Bonded to Brennen, though, she finds herself the unexpected bearer of an ancient messianic prophecy.

While her royal family seeks to seal her doom, Firebird and Brennan face two implacable enemies--one from his past...and one from deep in her soul.

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Absently smoothing a wrinkle in her snug black pants, genetics technician Terza Shirak pressed her forehead to her scanner and examined a sixteen-cell human morula. She could not allow one microscopic imperfection. 

Fortunately, all the visible chromosome divisions proceeded normally. Cytoplasmic proteins were also within tolerance. Terza reached around and carefully returned that culture dish to incubation, then drew the next tiny zygote from its sloshy growing place. 

Crown of Fire (Firebird, Book 3)
by Kathy Tyers

The enemy within

Lady Firebird Angelo Caldwell has been sentenced to death in absentia for treason, sedition, and heresy. The last thing she expects is a summons to return home and be confirmed as an heiress of her royal house.

But merciless foes are destroying entire cities on the Federate worlds. These renegades are trying to wipe out the messianic Caldwell bloodline, and they have almost eradicated the royal Angelos. To help trap an assassin, Firebird agrees to wear the heiress's tiara for one day of perilous pageantry.

Still, Firebird's deadliest enemy--the one that can destroy or bereave her--isn't that renegade assassin. Neither is it the despotic regent who hopes to seize the Angelos' throne, nor even the threat of dying in a desperate military strike at the renegades' world.

Unless she can bring her own pride to heel, everything she cherishes will be lost.

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Wind Haworth had risen early, eager to face this day. 

She sat on a stone bench inside Haworth housing's broad courtyard, calling up the day's tasks on her handheld: Main Air, meet shuttle at Inport--

​He's finally arriving. 

Wind and Shadow (Firebird, Book 4)
by Kathy Tyers

The once-proud people of Mikuhr are now on the verge of extinction

Taken from her home world of Mikuhr at a young age, Wind Haworth was raised by the conquering Sentinels. Although her loyalties are torn, she is determined to bridge the gap between the two cultures and their opposing ideologies, even if she must stand alone.
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Conflict explodes when apprentice priest Kiel Caldwell arrives on Mikuhr to explore rumors of new spiritual revelation, but he is kidnapped by a demon-possessed telepath who thinks Kiel might be a predicted messiah. And when Kiel's brother Kinnor, a loose-cannon military man, arrives to investigate, a local leader with revenge on her mind threatens to bring ruin on them all.

As a Mikuhran diplomat, Wind must head off a conflict that could have spiritual, political, and military ramifications. But when Wind encounters Kinnor, the situation becomes more personal than anyone expects.

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High Commander Brennen Caldwell rushed upship from his sleeping cabin. A tightly closed service hatch vibrated visibly as a metallic bell rattled bulkheads. The starboard deck seemed to be sinking, which meant the Daystar had to be turning hard. In all his trips across this quadrant of Federate space, Brennen recalled on such maneuver. 

​This alarm bell was no drill. 

Daystar (Firebird, Book 5)
by Kathy Tyers

Times have changed for the telepathic Sentinels in the realm of the Federate Whorl

Persecution sends these genetically altered people fleeing to their sanctuary world, but a shipboard disaster exposes High Commander Brennen Caldwell to fatal radiation. 

Elsewhere, wrongfully imprisoned Sentinel Jorah Caldwell receives a supernatural visitor, who hails Jorah as Boh-Dabar, the prophesied Word to Come. Meanwhile, a mysterious stranger arrives at the sanctuary world, also claiming to be Boh-Dabar. 

Soon, a tangle of interstellar incidents threatens the Sentinel kindred’s very existence. And no one—anywhere—has anticipated the events that will shake the interstellar Federacy.

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Opening Lines:

Lady Firebird Angelo was trespassing.

Shadowed by her friend, Lord Corey Bowman, she squeezed and twisted through a narrow, upright opening between two dusty stone walls. She'd paced off twenty meters in silence. her eyes had almost adjusted to the fain gray light from ahead and behind. Growing up in this palace, she'd explored it thoroughly and cautiously during her childhood. She hadn't tiptoed between these particular walls since she found the gap, four years ago, when she was fifteen. If she remembered right, then in ten meters more--

Something rattled behind her. ​

The Annotated Firebird (Firebird, Books 1-3)
by Kathy Tyers

In a war she doesn’t believe in,
she must forge a bold new destiny.

Firebird: Lady Firebird Angelo departs her home world expecting death in space combat. Captured instead, she finds a startling destiny among an ancient telepathic family—and a new kind of battle against implacable enemies.

Fusion Fire: Firebird discovers both evil and uncontrollable power at the depths of her own spirit, and when her sister commits unspeakable treachery, she must draw on that power to save the man she loves from certain death.

Crown of Fire: Firebird returns to her home world, where some consider her a hero—but those in power have labeled her a traitor. Facing death once again, she discovers the cost of pride and the true meaning of sacrifice.

In a single volume with newly created maps and annotations, here are the first three volumes of the beloved Firebird series.