Toronto International Media

Fourteen years after the rise of Ahrik, Anda is an algae farmer on Moon. His crop fails, then his wife is abducted by traffickers as she makes her way to provide for the family down on Home. Anda must take his ailing daughter with him to find her, and he is forced to face the ghosts of his past: Queen Zharla, the woman he once loved; and Ahrik, his estranged brother, who is now the king consort.

Anda cannot tell if they mean him good or ill, and he slowly learns that the fate of his dear wife and daughter depend on him knowing which it is.

Rise of Ahrik is a science fiction story about the meaning of love in the face of war and violence. Under women's rule, children are betrothed at birth to reinforce a peace that has stood for a thousand years. But when Zharla is forced to marry a man she doesn't love, she starts to uncover troubling secrets. She suffers a brutal attack in the dead of night. Her new husband, Ahrik, leads a shadowy force of clone soldiers. A rebellion over men's rights threatens women's rule. The impossible uncertainties of war leave Zharla wondering what she can possibly do to protect the only world she has ever known.