Dichotomy - The Centum Path Series, #2

Dichotomy is part 2 of The Centum Path series. It comes after Black Moon Rising. In part 2, immediately following their flight from Campana, Meredith and Caleb are separated, and a near impossible task lies ahead of them both - survival in an uncertain and alien Universe. Caleb, kidnapped and imprisoned by the Hertogin - head of the ruling Triad - has but one choice . to allow his seed to be used to breed an army of fanatics or face a life of isolation.
He is incarcerated alongside a motley crew of other Centum Path dwellers caught up in a power struggle caused by the death of the Maje Lebron. They elect him as their leader and he alone has the means to save them. In fighting for their freedom, Caleb kills a man. It unleashes a powerful alter ego and the gift of future sight. Caleb can now see a hundred different futures but each is reached only through unfathomable bloodshed. Meredith encounters the god-like figure of Osäl.
He is tested, and eventually given aid to seek Caleb and find a place of safety while Osäl barters with his sworn enemy to bring Bakar and Jonathan - with their precious gift of gold - back to save the peoples of the Centum Path from starvation. Tanaka, the master time weaver, begins his quest to find his missing son, Kilar, now part of Caleb's revolutionary band of followers. The enemies of the Centum Path are mustering, weakening its fragile defences, which rely on the gold that Bakar and Jonathan must deliver.
Their journey is told in the next instalment of the story ('The Portal Key'), alongside Phaeton's and Craig's odyssey now that they have perfected the portal key. Black Moon Rising thrust the reader straight into the heart of the lives of three couples, through whom we learn something of the nature of Space, Time and the meaning of Life ... and love. Dichotomy examines the conflict between love and the attraction of power beyond imagining.