An Unintended Voyage

Description
Moving outside the city of Maradaine, this new novel follows a lone member of the Maradaine Constabulary as she navigates a new but just as dangerous city.

Sergeant Corrie Welling--the young constabulary officer from Maradaine--has been abducted and confined on a ship bound for distant shores, where her captors have nefarious plans for her. With fortune and ingenuity, Corrie escapes, but finds herself stuck in a sprawling metropolis on the other side of the world: The Mocassa.

The Mocassa is a test unlike anything Corrie has ever faced. She doesn't speak the language, doesn't know the culture, and is forbidden from leaving the city until she pays off a colossal debt. Even if she's able to find decent work, it will take her years to settle her accounts and get home.

But Corrie Welling will not be cowed. She will work, fight, and hold her chin high. As a fringe faction of an apocalyptic faith spreads throughout the city, threatening the new friends she's sworn to protect, she'll continue to stand up for the values instilled in her as a member of the Maradaine Constabulary. Even if, as her darkest day approaches, she has to do it alone.

Plot Summary
Kidnapped by slave traffickers in A Parliament of Bodies, Corrie Welling stages a revolt and, with Eana Mellick, is rescued by a passing ship. They are taken to The Mocassa, where their rescuers shockingly file a claim for fees related to their rescue, and the girls are forced to work off their debts. Corrie swears that she will make sure that Eana gets back home to Maradaine.

Corrie's eyes are opened to the vastness and diversity of her world, as she realizes that Maradaine, while the grandest city in Druthal, is overshadowed by The Mocassa. To survive, Corrie begins to learn to read and speak Imach. Corrie ultimately finds employment as a bodyguard for an exiled Xonacan noble, Tleta.

Corrie, with her strong sense of justice and commitment to serve the people to that end, intervenes in several attacks and instances of harassment of strangers in the city, and in the process befriends university students Ang, a Tsouljan astronomer, and Nas'nyom, a Jelic linguist, expanding her circle of allies beyond the residents of the debthouse.

Corrie has run-ins with self-appointed enforcers of a doomsday street preacher. As the eclipse approaches, the cultists gain political and mystical power, creating a crisis in the city.

Appendix
TBA

Characters
Corrie Welling