The Flowers in Boreal Twilight

The Flowers in Boreal Twilight

Story Synopsis

Thirty months ago, a mysterious horde crossed the snow-capped mountains to the southeast. They fell upon Lydia's home country like the scourge of death, leaving cities in smoldering ruins and bloodied corpses as far as the eye can see.

Desperate to stop the tide of destruction, the Polisian Federation raised one army after another to face the enemy. But a string of defeats in battle left only fields of white bones. Entire noble bloodlines perished in the brutality of war, while all available men -- from fifteen-year-old boys to sixty-year-old grandfathers -- were conscripted and sent into combat.

In this darkest hour, the Polisia Federation received a divine blessing. The Protectress of Samara offered an otherworldly gift: the greatest military mastermind that time had ever seen, brought in from the distant world of Earth.

But was it too late?

There were almost no more men left to recruit. To turn the tide, the general would have to rely on the mass conscription of women -- an daunting task he begins by deriding Lydia and every female staff officer at headquarters.

This is a story of camaraderie, fraternity, love, and war, of how the greatest crisis forever changed a society and its gender roles, revolutionizing a culture to establish one of the most enduring states on Hyperion.

Volume 1

• Prologue

• Chapter 1 - The White Lily

• Chapter 2 - The Hound Awakens