Fleet of the Five Winds is a science-fantasy epic told in five parts: a vivid and richly-detailed world filled with wonder, danger and mystery, set against the backdrop of an unthinkable past.
In Part 1: South, Josephine of Meridia is stolen away from her homeland and delivered as tribute to the imperial capital of Cidoreis, where the maddened Emperor Garstazu reigns. There, she must cultivate her gift of perfect memory as a means towards freedom while evading the School of the Helix, an ancient order of geneticists who will stop at nothing to command her talents.
In Part 2: West, Captain Tomas Casadore of the Righteous Supplicant makes port with the Fleet of the Five Winds in Tetwan, a powerful and decadent city-state which the Admiral Gai-Loh seeks to bring beneath the imperial fold. The lords of Tetwan are proud, however, and as payment for their submission they demand the impossible: the newcomers must “cage the quetzal”- a bird that dies in captivity- and thereby fulfill an ancient prophecy of their people.