This is my first experience reading an alternative history novel. Inceptio is not just an alternative history novel though…it’s part political thriller, part romance, and part fantasy.
Karen Brown leads an unassuming life. She grew up in rural Nebraska and moved to New York where she continues living a quiet life.
She works in a cubicle with no major responsibilities. She isn’t seeing anyone special, and like most young women on their own, she’s barely making ends meet.
But all that is about to change, in a big way.
When she starts working on a new account for a Roma Nova organization, she has no idea they are actually there surveying her. She soon learns that her mother, a fellow Roma Novan, made arrangements for her to be rather well off.
But as the saying goes, more money, more problems….someone wants her to disappear.
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Vienna and Prague are world renowned as cities full of music and the arts….and maybe even a little magic. It is here in the magical city of Vienna that we find musicologist Sarah Weston.
In an ice palace in eighteenth century Russia, two twin princes are born—Prince Alexander and Prince Andrei.