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    Heaven's Gate: Qorathi Empire
    Heaven's Gate: Qorathi Empire
    Heaven's Gate: Qorathi Empire
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    Heaven's Gate: Qorathi Empire

    By Michael Kingswood

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    As an operative for the Qoarthi Empire's Internal Security Service, Manolo Garces investigates and brings to justice all manner of plots against the Empire's integrity.

    No villain ever escapes his grasp.

    Until a plot against the Emperor's sister draws him into deeper waters than he ever imagined he would wade.

    Heaven's Gate is a short science fiction story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSSN Storytelling
    Release dateJan 29, 2024
    ISBN9798224016648
    Heaven's Gate: Qorathi Empire
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    Michael Kingswood

    Michael Kingswood has written numerous science fiction and fantasy stories, including The Pericles Conspiracy, The Glimmer Vale Chronicles, and the Dawn of Enlightenment series. His interest in scifi/fantasy came at an early age: he first saw Star Wars in the theater when he was three and grew up on Star Trek in syndication. The Hobbit was among the first books he recalls reading. Recognizing with sadness that the odds of his making it into outer space were relatively slim, after completing his bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University, he did the next best thing - he entered the US Navy as a submarine officer. Almost seventeen years later, he continues to serve on active duty and has earned graduation degrees in Engineering Management and Business Administration. Fitting with his service onboard Fast Attack submarines (SSNs), he does his writing on Saturdays, Sundays, and at Night. He is married to a lovely lady from Maine. They have four children, and live wherever the Navy deems to send them. Sign up to receive email announcements of Michael's new releases and other exclusive deals for newsletter subscribers here: http://eepurl.com/eND22 .

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      Heaven's Gate - Michael Kingswood

      Heaven’s Gate

      Heaven’s Gate

      A Qorathi Empire story

      Michael Kingswood

      SSN Storytelling

      Contents

      About This Book

      Heaven’s Gate

      Message From The Author

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      About The Author

      More Books By Michael Kingswood

      About This Book

      As an operative for the Qoarthi Empire’s Internal Security Service, Manolo Garces investigates and brings to justice all manner of plots against the Empire’s integrity.

      No villain ever escapes his grasp.

      Until a plot against the Emperor’s sister draws him into deeper waters than he ever imagined he would wade.

      Heaven’s Gate is a short science fiction story.

      Enjoy the book! After you’re done, please come to Michael’s website and sign up for his mailing list. Guaranteed to be spam free, he uses it to announce new releases and special promotions for his fans.

      Heaven’s Gate

      The central marketplace in Theomor, the capital city of Heaven's Gate, extended for a kilometer in every direction, and housed merchants of all kinds, and without much in the way of rhyme or reason that Manolo could figure out. A sparkling clean, brightly lit, three-story store decorated in the latest modern flash and style and selling the latest network equipment to come off automated manufacturing plants three systems away could have, sitting right out front, a butcher stand from a local ranch, complete with recently-slaughter pig's haunches hanging from its display rack.

      A hot—because it was always hot on Heaven's Gate, even in what passed for winter—and disorganized mess of every type of product, every type of person, and every possible scent from all over the Qorathi Empire. And no one seemed to mind or think it odd at all.

      Manolo loved it.

      And not just because of its vibrant

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