Ominous Strangers
Inca (Inca, volume 1)
By Suzanne Allés Blom
2000’s Inca is the first volume of Suzanne Allés Blom’s Inca alternate-history trilogy.
Exemplary Fortune — or Atahualpa, as he is known to history — is a loyal prince of the Four Quarters, serving the Unique Inca, Young Majesty. Young Majesty has ruled for more than thirty years. Now, however, disturbing omens suggest that Young Majesty’s era of comparative peace1is at an end.
News is received from the town of Recognition: peculiar strangers have arrived in a bizarre boat. EF is dispatched to investigate.