Before the Storm

In the far future, four friends fight to survive a hostile climate and war between two superpowers locked in a struggle to the death. In the far future, human colonists have forgotten their origins. Their planet is hostile to human life, spawning continent-spanning storms of fire and destruction. Civilization clings to life, advancing in knowledge between storms and regressing when the firestorms reduce entire nations to ash. Two nations dominate the world: New Persia and Azania. Each originated from minorities persecuted on Old Earth. How do oppressed sects become the faith of empires? The fallen scion Nasrin Avesta and the rebel Suri Pahlavi reject the future their families chose for them and create their own How do the two women fight an entire culture's expectations? In a patriarchal society, one rebels and the other adapts. Whose course is the right one? Basir Turani is a captain in the Prince's Own Regiment. He is sent to the frontier to forestall Azanian aggression but is caught in a storm of war. He must use all his intellect and cunning to prevail against the elements, the enemy, and traitors in his midst. Can he save New Persia from the twin disasters of fire and conquest? Fighter pilot Farad Hashemi duels the Azanian Air Force in the skies above. The coming storm will change them all. Who will survive?