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Marseguro, a water world far distant from Earth, is home to a small
colony of unmodified humans known as landlings and to the Selkies, a
water-dwelling race created by geneticist Victor Hansen from modified
human DNA. For seventy years the Selkies and the unmodified landlings
have dwelled together in peace, safe from pursuit by the current
theocratic rulers of Earth--a group intent on maintaining human genetic
and religious purity.
Then landling Chris Keating, a misfit on any world, seeks personal
revenge on Emily Wood and her fellow Selkies by activating a distress
beacon taken from the remains of the original colony ship. When the
Earth forces capture the signal and pinpoint its origin, a strikeforce,
with Victor Hansen's own grandson Richard aboard, is sent to eradicate
this abomination.
Yet Marseguro will not prove as easy
to conquer as the Earth force anticipates. And what Richard Hansen
discovers here may alter not only his own destiny but that of Marseguro
and Earth as well...
Watch for the sequel, Terra Insegura,
in early 2009!
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