What is a Periphage?

From old Greek words Peri- for walking, and -phage for something that consumes.

Captain Whitt meets a periphage in a bar one night and wakes up the next morning with a body no longer his own. The periphage is stealing his identity, his ship, and his life to get where it wants to go. In turn, the periphage is pissed off that Whitt stubbornly hangs on to his own identity and refuses to turn over the codes to his ship. Both have secrets that powerful people would like for themselves. If they want to evade capture, they're going to have to learn to cooperate. That doesn't mean they have to like each other.

That's the gist of my next novel, Periphage Blues. I'm still working on Sellenria II, but an epic-length novel takes some time to complete. It's getting there, but I took a break to write this story in the meantime. I'll give you some status updates as it comes along, and I'll be looking for some beta readers and ARC reviewers when the time gets closer.

Periphage and Periphage Blues are copyright and trademark of Charles T Boeheim.