On the settlement planet of Harmony, a country dissolves into economic and social chaos – with two very different people caught in the middle! Ruven has come to the city to plead for better terms for his dairy cooperative, which is choking on ill-considered regulations. Jillian, a holodrama star, is slow to realize that her celebrity won’t insulate her from the coming disaster – even as she coaches Ruven on how to make his case to corrupt bureaucrats. While a totalitarian government snatches at half-measures to stay in power, Ruven and Jillian learn to navigate a world of hunger and violence, where the rules of survival change daily and where the dangers range from gang warfare to epidemic disease. Their one hope is to escape the city for a farming community – but Jillian’s very pregnant sister-in-law, Trisha, cannot travel…
**
About the Author
Margaret Ball writes fantasy, science fiction, and occasional historical novels from her home in Austin, Texas where she lives with her husband. The summers are getting to her but she’s not about to move, not with one daughter living ten miles north of their house and the other one living five miles east. Everything will work out fine as long as they don’t try to drag her into the twenty-first century. Previously published novels include Flameweaver, Mathemagics, and Disappearing Act, all with Baen, and Duchess of Aquitaine with St. Martin’s. Her most recent books are a science fiction trilogy set on the world of Harmony, populated by settlers from Earth. The books in the Harmony series are Insurgents (September 2017), Awakening (October 2017), and Survivors (November 2017).
Description:
On the settlement planet of Harmony, a country dissolves into economic and social chaos – with two very different people caught in the middle! Ruven has come to the city to plead for better terms for his dairy cooperative, which is choking on ill-considered regulations. Jillian, a holodrama star, is slow to realize that her celebrity won’t insulate her from the coming disaster – even as she coaches Ruven on how to make his case to corrupt bureaucrats. While a totalitarian government snatches at half-measures to stay in power, Ruven and Jillian learn to navigate a world of hunger and violence, where the rules of survival change daily and where the dangers range from gang warfare to epidemic disease. Their one hope is to escape the city for a farming community – but Jillian’s very pregnant sister-in-law, Trisha, cannot travel… **
About the Author
Margaret Ball writes fantasy, science fiction, and occasional historical novels from her home in Austin, Texas where she lives with her husband. The summers are getting to her but she’s not about to move, not with one daughter living ten miles north of their house and the other one living five miles east. Everything will work out fine as long as they don’t try to drag her into the twenty-first century. Previously published novels include Flameweaver, Mathemagics, and Disappearing Act, all with Baen, and Duchess of Aquitaine with St. Martin’s. Her most recent books are a science fiction trilogy set on the world of Harmony, populated by settlers from Earth. The books in the Harmony series are Insurgents (September 2017), Awakening (October 2017), and Survivors (November 2017).