Don’t Turn Your Back
Hellflower (Hellflower, volume 1)
By Rosemary Edghill
20 Apr, 2023
The End of History
1991’s Hellflower is the first volume in the Hellflower space opera series. Hellflower was written by Rosemary Edghill under the name eluki bes shahar1.
The Phoenix Empire rose from the ruins of the Federation to provide its subjects with peace, order, and good government. Each subject has their duly allotted role. Butterfly St. Cyr has an unallotted but crucial role: low-level smuggler, testing to see how long it takes the Empire to notice her and execute her for multiple capital crimes.
Butterfly being Butterfly, she will spend the book adding to the affronts for which the Empire might want her dead.