Palác šupinatých koček – Kašparová Jarmila (2025)

A grand sci-fi novel about the search for self-confidence and palace intrigues

On one planet stands a palace as large as the world, a full day's journey across. Behind its walls lurks death, most likely… No one has ever returned from there, so something must be lurking behind them. Therefore, exile is the cruelest punishment.

Someone has murdered the cinšár, the ruler of the world. That is already quite strange. Courtiers and cupiti are crying, and the council is beginning to sift through the truth. An unknown murderer is sneaking through the corridors. And suddenly someone remembers: Didn't the cinšár have a daughter from his first marriage? He cast out her mother along with the child. That girl, whatever her name is, is she not already of age?

Bekh, who has heard all her life from her mother that she is completely useless, becomes the heir to the throne and the main suspect. Therefore, she must first find out whom she can trust to prove her innocence, but also to show that she is worthy of ruling the palace, where intrigue and betrayal are rampant.

Will she survive the web of conspiracies and perhaps even rule the world? Only the scaly cats, the true rulers of the palace, know the answer.