The Chronicler's Arrival
In The Chronicler’s Arrival, Raymond Diaz is brought to Alnos after committing suicide on Earth, convinced his half-Alnese infant daughter had died. During his recovery, Raymond’s preternatural visions about Alnos’ frozen past bring him to the attention of Lady Alnos Ciani, the planet’s ruler. She asks him to become her “Chronicler” or personal historian, and asks visiting explorer Dragon Ashewe to become his guide. Raymond learns to live again in a new world undergoing as momentous a transformation as he is, a world headed into an escalating conflict over its new riches as it emerges from a deep ice age.
Winter Schisms
A simmering conflict between natives and immigrant settlers on Alnos erupts into full-blown violence and a massacre in Winter Schisms. New Chronicler Raymond documents and his mentor Dragon mediates as local justice Eden of Pallas House, the subject of Dragon’s ethnographic case study, is put in charge of containing the conflict with help from kinsman Pallas Alexander, a powerful Alnese war lord. Raymond and Dragon cannot avoid getting drawn in as Alnese factions jockey to impose clashing solutions.
Ice Odyssey
In Ice Odyssey, visiting planetologist Dragon formalizes her relationship with her Alnese husband and starts a family. Her new kinspeople, powerful Alnese war lord Pallas Alexander and the man in charge of pacifying Alnos, Pallas Eden, investigate what sparked Alnos’ ‘Island Troubles’ and ensuing open conflict in Winter Schisms. Both become targets of assassination attempts, with Eden gravely injured. As Alexander ferrets out the conspiracy, efforts to negotiate a more lasting peace hang in the balance.
Debts
New Chronicler Raymond is called to witness peace efforts as he wrestles with old demons from his Earth days in Debts. A mysterious disappearance complicates efforts to quell the violence and negotiate a lasting peace, and Dragon uncovers old and new grievances that could destroy their families.
