World Maker - The Ascension of Romanova

The prequel to Piper Robbin and the American Oz Maker is now published by Del Sol Press and entitled, World Maker : The Ascension of Romanova. The story focuses on the maturation of Catherine Romanova, from young girl in her father's castle in Prussia to World Maker supreme, and then back again. Plotting style and sets are very different from the follow-up Piper novel. Characters like Romanova spend a liberal amount of energy phasing from one point in time to the next, and it makes good sense. Why? Because they are fighting a time war for the destiny of the 21st century.

One moment Catherine is at the Battle of the Somme in WW I, working to ensure the German army turns the war tide in its favor. Is this a spoiler? The next moment she is "bitch slapping" Genghis Khan in his own tomb (after a Mongolian wizard restores him to life), evolving to drag her abusive mother Princess Joanna down the castle hall by her hair. Regardless, the major thrust of the plot concerns altering the course of the 20th century's two world wars, or even preventing them, and in doing so, disallowing the rise of the American military-industrial complex that will later drive America towards global domination with the help of the novel's main antagonist, Edison Godfellow (Piper's father in American Oz Maker, aka Leonardo Da Vinci).

Fighting in the past to save the future. A story trope found often in SFF, no question, but World Maker delivers it's own special spin on the trope by layering in bizarre characters, unexpected plot twists, fantastical sets, and blood-boiling violent action scenes that are told with a narrative prose style second to none.