The sun returned to the city of Sinasekan with summer fire after the afternoon rain faded away over the sea.  The streets were all but sti...

  The wind raved like curses through the jagged rocks of the Kasara Strait, whipping the waves into white-crested fury and screaming in betw...

  A storm was sweeping across the sea from the darkened south, casting down rain and billowing wind, and the seaside outpost of Jinan lay be...

  Jaya plunged down into the black waters, surrounded by the floating ruin of shattered wood and torn bodies.  She tried to swim, but her ar...

  Jaya drove her rowers hard through the morning.  The sun rose blazing behind them and she steered through waves that deepened and rolled m...