Councilor: A Novel in the Grand Illusion

"L. E. Modesitt, Jr. continues his brand new, gaslamp, political fantasy series with Councilor, the sequel to Isolate. Continued poor harvests and steam-powered industrialization displace and impoverish thousands. Protests grow and gather followers. Against this rising tide of social unrest, Steffan Dekkard, newly appointed to the Council of Sixty-Six, is the first Councilor who is an Isolate, a man invulnerable to the emotional manipulations and emotional surveillance of empaths. This make...