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Name: Nocturne

Author: Jus Neuce
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ISBNs:
9781933083018
1933083018

Bang! With a single explosion, a sudden act of violence shocks a planet... Earth has sent its first wave of colonization vessels. Before descending into a new planet's atmosphere with little hope of return, Nocturne's first colonists have sent back a message - success, a livable planet around a long-lived sun. In answer a single ship arrives with less than half the requested supplies, manned by a class of people too different from those settled on the surface. After that... silence. A society forms and thrives alone. Now, a century and a half later, the leader of an unwanted people struggles against prejudice; a shrewd woman fights to overcome injury and to protect her place in the planet's power structure; and two young men find themselves caught in the middle of an ambitious political battle to keep power from shifting. Intricate and packed with intrigue... Nocturne is a planet alone, a startling tale of human psychology and the desperate nature of colonization far from one's beginnings... a tale of love, loyalty, naked ambition and fierce independence.