Templum Veneris

Althea Fallon sensed something wrong the moment she set foot in Cytherea, that gleaming city atop Venus’ highest mountain.

It wasn’t just that every citizen was a perfect specimen of physical perfection.

It wasn’t just that Rainha Isabel Maxamilliano ruled over all aspects of the city, including a military force of men trained at birth to defend the state.

And it certainly wasn’t that the rest of her team was enthralled by Isabel and the pleasures of Cytherea.

A darker secret keeps this city in line. And when Althea finds the truth, she and the rest of her team must make a choice: flee the city before the might of the Cytherean army or fight against Isabel’s tyrannical regime and plunge the long-lost human settlement on Venus into total chaos.