Soulfire: Charles Ingrid

Book IV of Patterns of Chaos. Boost - a synthetic drug for humans which seemed to be the answer to the fading powers of the Choyan tezars, the pilots who used their soulfire to guide starships at faster-than-light speed across the galaxy. Yet only humans could produce Boost and no one was certai of the long term effects. But with the Houses of Cho in conflict, the tezar training school at Blue Ridge destroyed, the emperor now extremely vulnerable, Palaton now a fugitive stripped of his heirdom and his human comrade Rand a prisoner on the planet Sorrow, there was no-one left to stand against those ready to use Boost to establish a brand new rule - that of the House of Tezars. Cover art by Vincent Di Fate.