Title: High Couch of Silistra
Series: The Silistra Quartet Book 1
Author: Janet Morris
Genre: Dystopian Epic SciFi Fantasy Romance
Three hundred years of tradition shatter with a single holographic message.
Estri has lived her entire life as a Well-Keepress on Silistra—a role steeped in ancient ritual, sensual power, and the mystical traditions that bind her world among the civilized stars. But on the day of her majority, her dead mother’s message reveals a shocking truth: her father is no refined aristocrat, but a savage warrior from beyond known space.
Suddenly, the life Estri knew crumbles. Armed only with her great-grandmother’s cryptic prophecy—beware the port city of Baniev, trust no one who isn’t what they seem, and know that your father’s daughter’s brother seeks you—she’s thrust into a quest that will strip away everything she is.
Aristocrat becomes outcast. Courtesan becomes slave. Keepress becomes seeker.
Across alien worlds and through roles she never imagined, Estri must discover whether her destiny is truly written in her bloodline—or if she has the strength to forge her own path. In a universe where biology shapes reality and sensuality is both weapon and weakness, one woman’s search for her origins becomes a journey to claim her true self.
The first book in the legendary Silistra series—where epic worldbuilding meets one woman’s mythic transformation.
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Best selling author Janet Morris began writing in 1976 and published more than 30 novels, many co-authored with her husband Chris Morris or others. She contributed short fiction to the shared universe fantasy series Thieves World, in which she created the Sacred Band of Stepsons, a mythical unit of ancient fighters modeled on the Sacred Band of Thebes. She created, orchestrated, and edited the Bangsian fantasy series Heroes in Hell, writing stories for the series as well as co-writing the related novel, The Little Helliad, with Chris Morris. She wrote the bestselling Silistra Quartet in the 1970s, including High Couch of Silistra, The Golden Sword, Wind from the Abyss, and The Carnelian Throne. This quartet had more than four million copies in Bantam print alone, and was translated into German, French, Italian, Russian and other languages. In the 1980s, Baen Books released a second edition of this landmark series. The third edition is the Author’s Cut edition, newly revised by the author for Perseid Press. Most of her fiction work has been in the fantasy and science fiction genres, although she has also written historical and other novels. Morris has written, contributed to, or edited several book-length works of non-fiction, as well as papers and articles on nonlethal weapons, developmental military technology and other defense and national security topics.
Janet said: ‘People often ask what book to read first. I recommend “I, the Sun” if you like ancient history; “The Sacred Band,” a novel, if you like heroic fantasy; “Lawyers in Hell” if you like historical fantasy set in hell; “Outpassage” if you like hard science fiction; “High Couch of Silistra” if you like far-future dystopian or philosophical novels. I am most enthusiastic about the definitive Perseid Press Author’s Cut editions, which I revised and expanded.’
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