2020 Bronze President’s Award for Best Fantasy
Eighteen years after the war ended between the humans and hominoid-winged harpies, Will, Shail’s eldest golden son approaches maturity and is destine to become the next harpy ruler on the jungle planet of Dora. Unknown to the harpies, another golden male gifted with powerful telepathy comes of age on a distant desert planet. Feared, despised, and considered a winged freak, Alex is disillusioned and bitter. He walks a precarious path toward an unknown future that could affect the harpy flocks and mankind. Flight of the Golden Harpy III, Sons of Shail is the last fantasy in the award-winning trilogy by renown storyteller, Susan Klaus. The first two novels received the Royal Palm Literary Award for Best Fantasy/Science Fiction and won the Silver President Award for Fantasy. “…hard-hitting and well-conceived,” Piers Anthony, author of 23 N.Y. Times Best Sellers.