Wind From the Abyss

Estri was a prisoner - and a lover.

Once the holder of her planet's highest office - the High Couch of Silistra - Estri was now powerless, held captive by the usurper Khys. His ambition: to exhume the lost technology that had decimated the world's population centuries before. Alone, Estri could do nothing. But Khys's plans threatened outworlders as well - and Estri's rescue would come not from Silistra, but from space.