Earth-Thunder

As the great mountain in the west speaks to the sky with a tongue of flame, the Talisman Prophecy is on the verge of fulfilment.

The rulers of the Lone Star Confederation are convinced that Clearwater’s child – whose birth coincides to the second with the volcanic eruption – is the Thrice-Gifted One. And they hold both in their power. Cadillac and Steve’s kin-sister, Roz, who have combined their formidable powers are determined to free her but Steve, lured by the prospect of a dazzling career within the First Family, is no longer certain who to support or betray.

He has little time in which to decide for, in Ne-Issan, the land of the Iron Masters, a lone woman intent on avenging her dead lover is about to plunge her nation into a civil war that will set the whole continent ablaze.