Starphoenix - Edward Brown

Hitherto trusted persons of authority have fallen prey to their lust for power and staged an elaborate series of attacks at strategic points throughout the galaxy. Having made a devilish pact with a race that has to this point in history hated them, it is the fiendish plot of those close to Emperor Starphoenix to undermine the government and overthrow the Starphoenix Dynasty at nigh any cost.

With the emperor silenced in the wake of terrorist attacks that have left half a million citizens dead their wake, the duty of reestablishing order amid the chaos falls to emperor's children. The princess of the Starphoenix Family  is the embodiment of  the grace, wisdom, and philosophy of the old ways, while its prince (Maxim) represents the latest and greatest the galactic starforce has to offer. Together, they must persevere in the face of multisphered terror and save the worlds depending on them... if their own government doesn't kill them first.

E. S. Brown uses his multicultural background and love of all things adventurous to neatly assemble this epic story for sci-fi lovers. His universally appealing plots involve beings that are not merely humans in an outer space setting but beings that are very clearly differing alien races. The attention to detail the author pays to his extra terrestrial creatures is one of many things that is sure to set Starphoenix apart in the veritable firmament of science fictions authors..