Bøker av Richard Friesen

He who dreams of the kingdom is king...On midwinter's night, the king of Dendalen must climb the treacherous path to the Tower of Dreams, where he will receive a prophetic dream to help him guide his nation through the year to come.Prince Magnus, not king and not even the heir, enjoys studying with the high priest more than learning swordplay with his father and elder brother.But that night, while the king lies in wait of a dream that does not come to him, Magnus dreams of two orphaned children-a thief from the slums and a sergeant's daughter-who will somehow hold the fate of the nation in their hands. And he dreams of his brother's betrothed waiting in the palace, wearing a crown and heavy with child, as the darkness of war, and magic that kills whatever it touches stalk the land.When Magnus tells his father the dream, his father asks him to lie, not about their kingdom's dark future-but about who dreamed.Injustice hides in plain sight as magic dooms the world. Come with Magnus as he tries to find the truth behind the prophecies that will save not only his own kingdom, but the entire world. The Dreaming King SagaThe Tower of Dreams (this book)An Uncivil WarOn Black MesaThe Gates of Heaven

When a greedy interstellar empire just can't leave a good planet alone...Burgundy Lee, star pilot and engineer, should be set for life now that she's escaped her "destiny" of rehashing her clone-sister's triumphs.One problem, though: what comes next when you've spent almost your whole life trying to escape your destiny?Still freelancing, apparently.Burgundy's old friend Jackson offers her a job she can't refuse, an offer of money and the chance to push her engineering skills past their limits. Now she's tangled up in rescuing a spy, dodging lasers and missiles, and messing with the space-time continuum.Worse, Eksil, a planet Burgundy rescued from a military blockade, is in trouble again. It seems when Burgundy broke the blockade, the interstellar empire that's allergic to cooperation, Nova Roma, just switched to sending infiltrators disguised as merchant ships.Burgundy had been searching for a home and a new career, but this wasn't what she had in mind.What do the Romans want with such a backwater planet, anyway? And what's the connection to the spy Burgundy just rescued?What's worth fighting an interstellar war to obtain? Come along and find out what secrets await! The Clark Family Legend Series The adventures of a family tied together by their love of space exploration...their cocksure attitude toward life...and their ace flying skills! If you love Golden Age SF writers like Robert A. Heinlein...first contact with alien stories...and genius pilots out to save the galaxy...the Clark family is for you!Book 1: Prodigy's LossBook 2: Ensign's RenownBook 3: Ace's Anguish Book 4: Student's FuryBook 5: Deuce's ExileBook 6: Sisters' Homecoming

The adventures of a family tied together by their love of space exploration...their cocksure attitude toward life...and their ace flying skills! If you love Golden Age SF writers like Robert A. Heinlein...first contact with alien stories...and genius pilots out to save the galaxy...the Clark family is for you!It all starts because Brandeis Clark has grown bored with spaceflight academy. Thus, when the government offers her an assignment hunting interstellar pirates, she jumps at the chance. But the newly minted defense force sends Brandy and the rest of the crew out in a refitted sub-light ship to go on a years-long science mission in hopes these mysterious pirates will attack.Brandy is interstellar bait.

Bending the fabric of space won't pay her starship repair bills...but a suicidal freelance mission might.Freelance spaceship pilot engineer Burgundy Lee may have escaped her rebellious past, but she still needs to cough up some dough in the present. Trying to avoid the mystery cabal that attempted to turn her into a copy of her famous pilot sister, Burgundy escapes to some of the most lawless frontiers of known human space, playing courier for the highest bidder.It's a self-induced exile, but it cuts her off from everyone she's ever known. Friendless, homeless but for her ship, and broke, she has only her wits to rely upon.Her wits...and her ability to modify her ship, Hiram's Revenge.When a mysterious man hires her to retrieve a secret passenger bound for Earth, Burgundy turns to her engineering skills in hope of finding a solution. She'll have to push the boundaries of science to find a way to avoid an illegal military blockade...a way that not even her famous sister ever discovered.No one will tell Burgundy the truth about the mission. She doesn't know who her passenger is, the forces she'll have to evade, or even the identity of the man in the expensive suit who hired her.But that doesn't mean she won't find out.Join Burgundy's search for the loophole around the blockade...and around the secrets that have driven her to the ends of the galaxy!