The City Above and Below

Enter now, the Song of the Weaver ... Par Riordan is a Taker, a 200-year-old cybernetic assassin assisted by his symbiotic Shade. After a mission where he's asked to kill an old friend, Par is given a new and deadly assignment: Travel to the war-ridden planet of Arc to capture or kill every member of the Duathic royal family. Fel Etain is the younger daughter of the Duathic King. Trapped in a war zone with enemies on all sides, her mother and sister launch a daring plan to escape. But Fel? She doesn't want to leave. No, as the orbital bombs fall around them, Fel finds herself enticed by an ancient spirit who leads her down into the Other, a dangerous parallel reality where her half-mad father, intent on destroying their enemies, is searching for a terrible weapon. Journey now into a story filled with soldiers, spies, and wayward princesses ... they all meet in the City Above and Below. "In this first volume of his Song of the Weaver series, Nesheim beams readers into an interplanetary conflict drawn with the expert eye of a former infantryman who we might well imagine read all of Tolkien and Heinlein in the back of a Humvee." - David Bowen, MAYDAY Magazine

"I admire the characterization and plotting of Matt's novel: it is skillful and suspenseful." - Edward Uehling, Vietnam Veteran & Professor Emeritus of Literature, Valparaiso University