Space bends. Loyalty shouldn't. A nine-book space opera of first contact, found family, and the long way home.
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Castor Ames never asked to matter. Sara Ki'rell Sudis never had the choice. When a discovery buried in the physics of curved space threatens the fragile order of the Pentarch Cluster, the two of them are pulled into a conflict older than the colonies themselves, one where the price of the truth is everything they call home.
Five worlds. One key. And a door that should never have been found.
For readers of Speaker for the Dead and A Memory Called Empire.
A full-cast serialized audio adaptation of Book One, produced with more than thirty distinct character voices. New episodes release as the journey unfolds.
Nine books. Three generations. One cluster of worlds bound together by the arks that carried them there, and by the secrets those arks still keep.
Castor Ames and Sara Ki'rell Sudis, and the discovery that bends everything.
A new generation. Auric Ki'rell inherits a cluster transformed, and a question no one dared finish asking.
Every thread drawn tight. The story the Pentarch Cluster was always heading toward.
Transmissions from the wider universe, and a few from stranger places. Reading pages coming soon.
A Castor & Sara ChristmasComing soon
A Shortage of MagicComing soon
Chef's SaladComing soon
The Last PayphoneComing soon
T.A.G.G.Coming soon
Dean Williams spent three decades running manufacturing floors: automotive glass, specialty chemicals, the places where precision is the difference between a good day and a very bad one. He brings that same engineering discipline to the Pentarch Cluster Universe, a space opera thirteen years in the making, where the physics has to hold and the people have to matter.
His short story “The 4 Corners Bar” received a Silver Honorable Mention in the Writers of the Future contest. He lives in Henderson, Kentucky with his wife. The Curvature Key is his debut novel.
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