Flotsam: Book One of the Peridot Shift, Second Ed.

by R J Theodore

Overview

Captain Talis just wants to keep her airship crew from starving, and maybe scrape up enough cash for some badly needed repairs. When an anonymous client offers a small fortune to root through a pile of atmospheric wreckage, it seems like an easy payday. The job yields an ancient ring, a forbidden secret, and a host of deadly enemies.

 

Now on the run from cultists with powerful allies, Talis needs to unload the ring as quickly as possible. Her desperate search for a buyer and the fallout from her discovery leads to a planetary battle between a secret society, alien forces, and even the gods themselves.

 

Talis and her crew have just one desperate chance to make things right before their potential big score destroys them all.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940165502538
Publisher:	Robot Dinosaur Press
Publication date:	02/01/2022
Series:	The Peridot Shift
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

R J Theodore is hellbent on keeping herself busy. Seriously folks, if she has two spare minutes to rub together at the end of the day, she invents a new project with which to occupy them.

She enjoys design, illustration, video games (mostly spectating, for she is not as adept at them as she would prefer), reading, binging on media, napping with her cats, and cooking. She is passionate about art and coffee.

R J Theodore lives in New England with her family. She co-hosts The Hybrid Author Podcast and writes non-fiction as Rekka Jay.

Editorial Reviews

11/28/2022

Blending sci-fi and fantasy elements within a steampunk aesthetic, Theodore’s adventurous debut and Peridot Shift series launch introduces Talis, captain of the steam-powered airship Wind Sabre, and her misfit crew of three. They set out to make quick money by retrieving an old and valuable ring from a wrecked ship—and wind up in way over their heads. Mysterious alien visitors offer a greater sum than Talis and crew could ever dream of for the ring—and even more if they will lead the alien airship to their gods. It’s an impossible task, but the money’s too good to pass up. What no one aboard the Wind Sabre realizes, however, is that the ring is immensely powerful, and, in giving it to the aliens, they’ve made some dangerous enemies. Meanwhile, the aliens claim they want to consult with the gods about how the deities managed to rebuild the world after a devastating event called the Cataclysm—but there’s plenty the aliens aren’t saying. As enemy forces converge all around them, the crew of the Wind Sabre find themselves at the center of a percolating war. Theodore keeps the pages flying with shifting allegiances, epic battles, and plenty of intrigue while setting the stage nicely for future installments. Readers will be eager to see what happens next. (Self-published)

Publishers Weekly