A New Novel in the Nationally Best-Selling Liaden Universe(R) Series.
Sequel to national best seller Neogenesis.
Exiled from Liad after bombing a city to save it from The Department of
the Interior's infernal weapons and plans, Clan Korval has gone to
ground on the back-water planet Surebleak, whose people are as untamed
as its weather. The old Boss-controlled fiefdoms largely fell to Pat Rin
yos'Phelium's influence, but the world is restive, the influx of
outworld lawyers, guns, and money a brewpot for armed dissatisfaction.
Far beyond the surface of frigid Surebleak Korval's farflung trade
network needs a serious reset to recover from exile. From flagship
Dutiful Passage to the experimental - if centuries old - self-aware
Bechimo co-captained by the Delm's blood-sister Theo Waitley, the
clan's ships are prowling space lanes seeking trade. Meanwhile, Old Tech
from a failed universe - the ancient but revived Tinsori Light - and the
machinations of the mysterious Uncle are coalescing into dangerous
opportunity or nefarious trap.
And the Department of the Interior is not done with Clan Korval yet.
They seek a final fully reckoned revenge, with Surebleak and Korval's
ships and people everywhere in the crosshairs.