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Nightfall (#1 in the Clemhorn Trilogy)

by

Andrew J Harvey

Published by Zmok Books

As the Cross-Temporal Empire slides towards civil war, a war that threatens to destroy the Empire and the fifty-four parallel Earths that make it up, the Clemhorn family finds itself drawn into a struggle not only for the future of the Empire, but for their very lives. In a war that will split families, and set brother against sister.

Praise for Nightfall

“Nightfall is a combination of classic sci-fi invasion and imperial literature with a compelling plot” – The San Francisco Book Review (reviewed by Jo Niederhoff)
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“The author did a great job bringing this new world, and its characters to life” – Locks Hooks and Books

“The first novel in what promises to be an epic multivolume series” – Michael Cnudde (author of War Plan Crimson, A Novel of Alternate History – Somerset House Press)

“… a wonderful work of speculative fiction which masterfully encompasses aspects of military sci-fi and alternate history” Five Stars – Ruth Fox, Goodreads Author

“Nightfall is a complex, logical and enthralling alternate history with a huge story arc” – Tatitjarra (Amazon Australia reviewer)

Prologue

After eighty years of total war the remnants of humanity on the Nayarit Line struggled to survive in sealed domes, surrounded by radioactive wasteland and genetically engineered viruses. It was in the last, desperate years of the war that the first trans-temporal portal was developed at Chiqu, a small research facility on the west coast of North America. As the domes finally failed and civilization collapsed around them, Iapura led fifty-three survivors from Chiqu to found a new empire on a parallel Earth; an Earth where, in 1884, Russian and English armies faced each other across America’s Great Plains, totally unprepared for the technology of the invading Nayarit.Over the next ninety years Iapura’s Empire expanded steadily across a series of parallel Earths, absorbing and conquering until it included over fifty-four separate lines. Finally, however, with its technology stagnant and its ruling Council riven by dissent, the death of Manet, First Leader of the Cross-Temporal Empire will set the Council onto a slow and irrevocable slide into civil war.

Chapter 1

Perusia — Etu Line
April 1979 (95AE)