The Corsairs of Aethalia

A Thalassia novel

The name of the ringed world is Thalassia. Twelve year old Marko the Mouse is a good thief, and seldom errs while on a job. When his fellow thief Gnat makes a fatal blunder, it almost costs Marko his life. The startling results hurl him into a new life far from the slums he grew up in; as a deckhand in a merchant ship, and then as a member of the dreaded Corsairs of Aethalia. Intrigues spanning his entire world sweep him to strange new lands and plunge him into a struggle for power that began long before he was born. His only true friend is an alien traveler. A traveler who dwells within him… in his very bloodstream. A true symbiote, Anya helps Marko not only to survive, but to realize his own true potential as much more than human on a road to the throne.