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When the strikingly handsome, privileged, and hedonistic young Deputy Governor Andrew Onio suffers a massive and mysterious stroke, his surprising recovery propels him on a perilous journey. He follows a labyrinthine trail to indigenous refugee camps, illegal settlements, and secretive experimental farms beyond the militarized borders of the settler colony of Constantina.

Constantina has taught its Europan citizens to believe in their racial superiority and in their divine right to occupy the lands of the continent of Kanata. Andrew has been steeped in Constantinan nationalism and Kuni religion since birth, schooled by his father, a zealous supporter of the colony.

Accompanied by Maya, a beautiful yogi with immense powers, and shadowed from beyond his own mind by another advanced consciousness that has taken an interest in his survival, Andrew uncovers explosive secrets about his own past, the Guardians, and the political system that he has devoted his life to upholding.

The first book in the Svevi Avatar novel pentalogy, Persecution of Constantina introduces readers to contemporary characters and themes in an epic battle that spans 12,000 years and riveting physical settings across a world like, and unlike, our own.

Five years ago, when the Constantinans’ centuries-long assault on the environment finally led to a viral pandemic, the Europan government could not contain the spread.

Instead, they exiled Chin and Afrikan immigrants and incarcerated the sick in death camps, where they experimented on them to find a potential treatment. Fearing for the wellbeing of the earth and innocent humans, the indigenous people outside the militarized borders of Constantina faced a choice. Would they help the Constantinans defeat the virus or allow them to succumb to it?

The fate of the settler colony of Constantina lies in the hands of thirteen leaders. Senior official Bunim Cardozo listens in dismay to revelations by the tribunal of the astounding number of infractions committed by the Europan government. His patriotic pride in his homeland begins to unravel and he finds himself dwelling on the unfortunate events of the past five years that led to this pivotal moment.

Maya, a beautiful yogi with immense powers, is drawn in by Bunim’s anguish and is catapulted into his past: to the day the pandemic began. Unbeknownst to Bunim, Maya lives and feels each moment of his torment, heartache, and grief.