Description

When a Calpurnian faction leader kidnaps the young son of the Guardian of the city of Beira on Menaechmi, it’s up to his gaura, the intrepid Caralys, to find a way to rescue the boy. Getting a child off a Calpurnian warship in orbit safely seems impossible, but Caralys has an ace up her sleeve, a freelance agent named Bister. Bister wants Menaechmi’s support to repeal the Isolation that keeps her people imprisoned on Inanna, and what better way to get it than to have the Guardian owe her a favor? With the help of Boral, a young Morriganian electromancer on Menaechmi for his first port call, Bister lays her plans to trick the Calpurnians out of their prize. But when the Calpurnians threaten the unarmed cities of Menaechmi, the stakes get higher than one boy’s life. The fate of Menaechmi is in play, and Caralys must roll the Golden Lady’s dice to save her family and her world.

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Praise for Fortune’s Favor:

This series just keeps getting better! I fell in love with the complex, sensual, cut-throat entrepôt that is the city of Beira on Menaechmi and with its equally complicated Guardian, then stayed up far too late, heart in my throat, to find out what would happen next. Lush, complicated—and thought-provoking—adventure.. — Melissa Scott, legendary pioneering SFF author of more than thirty novels, winner of multiple genre awards

Familiar faces to the rescue as Graham gives us a new world to fall in love with and then immediately get incredibly concerned over. — E.K. Johnston, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author

Fortune’s Favor continues to develop and deepen the space opera world Graham introduced to us in Sounding Dark and Warlady. — Paul Weimer, SFF book reviewer and Hugo finalist

Graham’s saga of The Calpurnian Wars is a perfect escape, everything I want when I pick up a space opera: characters to care about, a high-stakes plot, thrilling space battles, and a good admixture of politics and behind-the-scenes diplomacy. With Fortune’s Favor, I found myself drawn ever deeper into the developing greater story. — K.V. Johansen, author of the Gods of the Caravan Road epic fantasy series

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Fortune’s Favor
by Jo Graham
Published by Candlemark & Gleam, October 2023
224 pages
ISBN: 978-1-952456-18-3
eISBN: 978-1-952456-19-0
Cover artist: Eleni Tsami
Series: The Calpurnian Wars #3