Orphaned and taunted as an Unlicensed child, Devra grew up determined to expiate her parents’ crime by being the perfect citizen – which means never, ever questioning or defying the rules of Harmony’s totalitarian government. When one of her students is threatened with “medical rehabilitation,” she finds that her personal values are incompatible with good citizenship. One instinctive act of defiance sends her on a downward spiral towards unemployment and homelessness. But at the very bottom, sometimes you meet someone who shows you a new way up….
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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 five 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).
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Orphaned and taunted as an Unlicensed child, Devra grew up determined to expiate her parents’ crime by being the perfect citizen – which means never, ever questioning or defying the rules of Harmony’s totalitarian government. When one of her students is threatened with “medical rehabilitation,” she finds that her personal values are incompatible with good citizenship. One instinctive act of defiance sends her on a downward spiral towards unemployment and homelessness. But at the very bottom, sometimes you meet someone who shows you a new way up…. **
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 five 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).