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The first planetary survey of Lebonath Jas is about to begin, and the uncertainty of what the Expeditionary Forces will find is palpable. So much of what has happened makes no sense. No sense at all. Its citizens have no concept of coming together for protection or to affect positive outcomes, savagery is the norm, and religion is based on fear and self-righteousness. Why did the institutions fail? Who is responsible and where are they? What happened to the people? Why are whole continents empty? What is the terrible secret Lebonath Jas is holding? Konik, Ardenai and Teal are about to find out, amid unspeakable terror and unbearable sorrow.

He came to be known as World Winner. Most Merciful Firstlord. Greatest of the Dragonhorses. Monster. Murderer. But before that, before ten thousand years of tradition forced him to trade a life that was rich and real and comfortable for the destiny he was bred to, he was a teacher, a father, a husband grieving the loss of the only woman he had ever loved.Born and raised in anonymity, he couldn't have known his fate. He expected certainty and instead found himself the hope of his people - the most powerful single entity in the known galaxy, ruling the most unassailable eleven planets in the Seventh Galactic Alliance. And at the center, mighty Equus, agricultural powerhouse, oldest of the civilized planets, his to rule. All that glory in the blink of an eye, and he was not the one who wanted it.And thus begins the story of how one very surprised individual found his future, and his future found him, and bound him. What he did and how he did it. Who he loved, and who he killed.

Peter Aloysha Aarons has done a lot of things in the twenty-six years since we first met him. He has finished his doctorate. He has won an Emmy. He has made made movies and played concerts world-wide. He has made peace with his father. He's been married - and divorced. What he's never been, is in love. That is about to change, causing him to question his own morals, his assumptions about himself, his perceptions of God, of miracles great and small, and utterlydestroying his well-ordered and much cherished routine. Is she worth it? Is the love of this quirky, married female author worth losing the love and respect of his father? How much is he actually willing to give up to be with her, and will she actually have him, and what is the terrible secret she's hiding?

Where is Konik? The man who spared his life and stopped a war, is missing. His wife's father hates him. His son resents him. He has an alien delegation on his doorstep. It is his first year as the Thirteenth Dragonhorse, and he still cannot fathom how he got to be the most powerful single entity in the known galaxy. He has more questions than answers, but he knows that the fate of millions of people hangs on what he chooses to do next.

This is the definitive remastered and reformated edition of the critically acclaimed Glory Days novel:Before civil rights and gay rights and equal money for equal work, there was the 1960's and Viet Nam, and the underlying current of civil unrest that occasionally bubbled to the surface. Out of the horrors of Southeast Asia and into the rarified air of Hollywood's Golden Age stepped Peter Aarons, into the shadow of his powerful father, Peter Aarons.The real one - the White lion of Hollywood. At twenty-six he could have had everything his father offered him - all the wealth, all the power - but what he wanted was to become a concert pianist - the next Sergei Rachmaninoff. He knew he needed to summon the strength to be his own man, to have faith in his own decisions, and he had no idea how to do that. Then he found Gloriosa Daisy Ruiz and her husband Rafael. A black woman and her Mexican husband. He fought for them to run his grandmother's household; they taught him what manhood really meant.

What do you do, when achieving what you most desire, involves facing what you most fear?Peter Aarons has been cast in the role of a lifetime. He is portraying his hero, Sergei Rachmaninoff in a major motion picture. He's been working hard and loving every minute of it, but now his part involves filming on location in the recently collapsed Soviet Union, in a crumbling manor house in the middle of nowhere. Even with Philippa beside him he's afraid it will be a harrowing experience. What ghosts will be stirred in him? What terrifying events from his past will surface? Will he be able to embrace his Russian heritage and celebrate Rachmaninoff, or will he fall victim again to the atrocities which befell him as a child? Will he rise from the ashes of a child's haunting memories, or collapse under their weight and bring the film down with him? Either way, he's about to find out.

What unseen force, what unseen power, is making these people behave as they do?Why do they believe that the verdant planet above them is the Witch World, where sinners go to burn?Why are they living like rats in the old sewer system of a ruined city?Who are the fanatically religious Flamen, and what is their real agenda?Morality is corrupted, civility for the privileged few. With Teal and Konik beside him, Ardenai begins carving a confusing, demoralizing and dangerous path into a society based on fear, suspicion and hatred.