About the Author
Piar Russo writes literary science fantasy — cinematically staged, psychologically complex, and built on the belief that a world worth entering is a world worth getting lost in. She lives on a ranch outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband Nick, two horses, and two Bengal cats.
The Book
The Radore — Book One of The Tenth Land
Vadred has nine lands and a warning it no longer trusts. The empire that came as the Tenth Land sits now in its temples, its courts and its ledgers — and the lands are discovering they can prosper by handing each other over.
A Reader is carried north toward Sendya, a capital where every faith has a price and every alliance is a wager. An heir watches his own father sell a holy city stone by stone, and is the only man who will say so. An engineer arrives in the empire's service and finds a world that answers him back. A ruined widow is offered a fortune by a merchant who knows exactly who she used to be.
They begin as strangers, but all four are already inside the same machine.
Quick Facts
- Series The Tenth Land, a four-book cycle
- Book One The Radore — complete, canon-locked, 80,000 words, 46 chapters, releases fourth quarter 2026
- Book Two Future Past — delivers first quarter 2027
- Books Three & Four Talen Feir and Pool of Sky — in final drafts
- Setting Vadred, a world of Nine Lands and a Tenth that threatens them all
- Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Press & Rights Inquiries
For interview requests, review copies, rights inquiries, or anything else, reach out directly.
Piar Russo
PiarRusso@proton.me