This post is for one of my favorite authors, Kayelle Allen. Kayelle and I have known each other—as well as we can through online contact—since I first started writing 15 or so years ago when we were with the same publisher. But sadly for me, I hadn’t read much science fiction or Kayelle’s work until recently. Now I could kick myself because I could have been engrossed in her fabulous worlds years ago. However, I’m here now and loving it!
Today, 3-14, is considered pi day—or PI day, in honor of Kayelle’s protagonist Pietas. He’s a warrior through and through. He hates humans and since he’s immortal, he will hate all humans throughout all time. Forced by his father to end the wars against humans, he attends what should have been a peace council. Instead, it’s a trap. Through even more trickery, he’s forced into a coffin like structure and sent to a far-off planet where he will live in exile. His guard? A human who brought about the coup de grace that entrapped him. Pietas hates him. The human hates Pietas and the fact that he has to accompany his enemy into exile.
The human, later called Six, has his own story (Lights Out) as a part of The Expanding Universe, Volume 4. How Six comes to guard Pietas is emotion-packed and really sets the stage. The way Pietas—called PI by Six—comes to regard his human captor is started in The Bringer of Chaos series.
The Origin of Pietas is a fascinating description of two highly distrustful souls who finally come to know each other objectively. Kayelle is a master of emotion and the psyche of what makes us all tick—our fears and our reluctant likes—emphasis on reluctant.
In Book 2, Forged in Fire, PI and Six land on their new planet and PI comes to know Six not only as an objective entity guarding his coffin but as a friend. Then they find the rest of PI’s people and family. Will Six fit in? Will Pietas abandon the human he has taken as a friend in favor of being with his own kind? And when Pietas is reunited with his own kind, he finds there may be a traitor in his midst. Those answers will be in the third book of the series, and I for one, cannot wait!
This series can be read as standalone books, but I loved reading them in order. I hope you celebrate PI day by exploring Kayelle Allen’s Bringer of Chaos series and learning what makes PI—Pietas—such a great character! Find out more about Kayelle Allen—a veteran, a great writer, and supporter of fellow authors on her site.