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    The Seventeenth Slave: The Prometheus Saga II
    The Seventeenth Slave: The Prometheus Saga II
    The Seventeenth Slave: The Prometheus Saga II
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    The Seventeenth Slave: The Prometheus Saga II

    By Jade Kerrion

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    An immortal, shape-changing alien seeking a reason for being…

    A young woman on the brink of greatness…

    Fu Hao, daughter of a chieftain, accepts the greatest of honors--to be one of King Wu Ding's sixty wives--propelling her to power in the Shang Dynasty and into the annals of history.

    No one speaks of the mysterious "amah" who attended Fu Hao from her first to last breath. More devoted than a mother and possessed of the wisdom of ages, the amah transforms a girl-child into a queen, high priestess, and warlord.

    This is Fu Hao's story. And this is the story of the long-forgotten seventeenth slave…

    Readers of ancient history and fans of the Double Helix series will enjoy this blend of historical and speculative fiction, an unforgettable foray into the life of the Shang dynasty's most remarkable woman, Lady Fu Hao.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJade Kerrion
    Release dateJul 10, 2018
    ISBN9781386829775
    The Seventeenth Slave: The Prometheus Saga II
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    Jade Kerrion

    Welcome! I’m Jade Kerrion, a Science Fiction author. I graduated from the Johns Hopkins University with an undergraduate degree in Biology and Philosophy, and then went on to get my MBA from the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia. My varied background led me through many careers across many industries, including container shipping, education, and management consulting. In my spare time, I wrote stories – young adult, fantasy, and science fiction – and developed a loyal reader base with my fan fiction series based on the MMORPG Guild Wars. I was accused of keeping my readers up at night, distracting them from work, housework, homework, and (far worse), from actually playing Guild Wars. And then I wondered why just screw up the time management skills of gamers? Why not aspire to screw everyone else up too? So here I am, writing books that aspire to keep you from doing anything else useful with your time. I live in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with my wonderfully supportive husband and my two young sons, Saint and Angel, (no, those aren’t their real names, but they are like saints and angels, except when they’re not.) Thank you for visiting!

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      Acknowledgments

      Special thanks to my beta readers and editors—Bradette Michel, Kim Campbell, and Kristin Durfee—for polishing The Seventeenth Slave into a work of art, and to Charles Cornell, for his cover design. You all helped bring the ancient glory of the Shang Dynasty to life.

      —JK

      The Prometheus Saga Introduction

      What’s past is prologue . . .

      —William Shakespeare, The Tempest

      The individual keeps watch on other individuals. Societies keep watch on other societies. Civilizations keep watch on other civilizations. It has always been so. Keeping watch is sometimes benevolent, sometimes malevolent. It is most certainly prudent.

      It is not a trait exclusive to the human species.

      Out of such prudence an advanced intelligence, far across the vastness of space, delivered to Earth a probe 40,000 years ago, to observe and report the progress of the human species. This probe was born here fully formed, a human being, engineered from the DNA of Homo sapiens. It possessed our skin, our organs, our skeleton, our muscles.

      And it still lives among us.

      The probe keeps watch.

      The probe is one of us. Almost. It possesses a nuclear quantum computer brain, emitting a low-level electromagnetic field. It manipulates DNA and stem cells, healing itself as needed. It dies, but remains immortal. It enters human societies, adopting any guise, any race, any gender, any age it wishes, following a three-month metamorphosis. It witnesses the events, great and small, good and bad, that shape our destiny.

      The probe keeps watch.

      Everything it sees, hears, feels, experiences, and thinks, it flashes instantaneously across a thousand light-years, in real-time quantum-entangled communication with the intelligence that sent it here.

      The probe keeps watch.

      And sometimes it acts.

      The Seventeenth Slave

      by

      Jade Kerrion

      1192 BCE

      They buried me alive.

      I

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