Hidden Fires

by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel, Cat Kimbriel, Katherine Kimbriel

Overview

"Closer to DUNE on an epic scale than to any of the Darkover or Pern novels."
--Shiny Book Review (on The Chronicles of Nuala Series)
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He had spent a hundred years seeking the woman called Silver; he still didn't know if he was going to kill her.

On Nuala -- planet of deadly radiation levels, humans who heal by touch, and the rarest metal in the known galaxy -- is a meeting of two con artists ripe for mischief...and maybe murder.

Two misplaced quests explode into a conspiracy of death, treason, and abduction.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013848184
Publisher:	Book View Cafe
Publication date:	12/01/2010
Series:	The Chronicles of Nuala , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

In the beginning Katharine Eliska Kimbriel was nominated for the Campbell Award for Best New SF/Fantasy Writer. Kimbriel wrote literate, character-driven SF and Fantasy. Then she became really ill and tried to die. Do you know that if you win the throw with Death, you become a wizard?

Published novels include the historical dark fantasies NIGHT CALLS and KINDRED RITES From HarperPrism. On the science fiction side you will find FIRE SANCTUARY, FIRES OF NUALA, and HIDDEN FIRES, stand-alone tales which take place on the same planet.

Katharine is managed by a Burmese cat and a handful of gargoyles. Her occasional hobbies have included ballroom dancing, Xeriscaping and macrobiotic cooking.

Go to her web site for the most recent info; she posts at her Live Journal blog (Alfreda89) which runs downhill to Facebook, Twitter and other points east. She is a member of Book View Cafe and Backlist Ebooks, and books and info may also be found there.

Editorial Reviews

"This is a book that you really need to read if you love science fiction, romance, or any blend of the two. It's complex, engrossing, honest, surprising, intelligent in how it deals with the problems of a completely different world with its own history and nuances, even more intelligent when it deals with the problems unwitting potential immigrants face on Nuala, and contains two realistic and root-worthy romances."

Shiny Book Review - Barb Caffrey

There are books you read at one fast gulp, books you savor at a slower pace. For me, Kimbriel's action-packed science fiction novel is both: It isn't necessary to read either of the other books to understand and enjoy Hidden Fires...but I'd highly recommend you do.

Magazine - Science Fiction Review

There are books you read at one fast gulp, books you savor at a slower pace. For me, Kimbriel’s third action-packed science fiction novel is both: It isn’t necessary to read either of the other books to understand and enjoy Hidden Fires...but I’d highly recommend you do.

Science Fiction Review

. . . when one of Katharine Kimbriel's Nuala books comes into my hands, I am instantly hooked. The climactic scenes in the trinium mines are equal to any I have ever read in excitement and impact.

Magazine - Quantum 39

. . . when one of Katharine Kimbriel’s Nuala books comes into my hands, I am instantly hooked. The climactic scenes in the trinium mines are equal to any I have ever read in excitement and impact.

Quantum 39

If Fire Sanctuary was an initial exploration, abounding in the many layers of world and culture building, history and genealogies, characters and interstellar plots, Hidden Fires reflects both balance and focus. As in the other two books, the action/adventure, while present, supports the real heart of the book, which are the complex, culturally-shaped relationships.

Blog Review - Deborah J. Ross