Qala the Pirate Queen appears in four of Stephen Brooke’s Izan Cycle fantasy novels. She was introduced as a secondary character in ‘The Eyes of the Wind,’ in which she is still the leader of the pirates. ‘The Crocodile’s Son’ and ‘The Crocodile God’ chronicle her adventures in retirement as a member of the landed gentry (and the mother of a demigod). We turn to her childhood as a refugee in the decaying city of Tesra in ‘The City and the Sword,’ when she was known as Lellie. Later she took the name of the city as her own, becoming Tes the pirate captain before rising to the position of queen.
It is as Tes she appears in the novella ‘Storm Stone,’ to be released June 28 2026. This is a tale of her days as a young pirate on her way to the top. All the books are available in print or as free ebooks at arachispress.com
