Standing at the threshold of humanity's greatest hope, she alone understands the darkness of guarding paradise. And when she discovers a genetically engineered soldier smuggled onto the surface, Vashti must face the nightmare of her husband's murder all over again. Vashti struggles in her role as one of the few colonists licensed to carry deadly weapons, just as she struggles with her history of using them. Haunted by the violent death of her husband, the heroic and celebrated Lasse Undset, Vashti must balance the needs of Ubastis against the swelling crush of settlers. For xenobiologist Vashti Loren, this means bringing Offworlders on safari to hunt the specimens she and her fellow biologists so desperately need to study. To acquire the tools they need, they are relegated to selling whatever they can to outside investors. The Ubasti colonists barely get by on their own. But such an influx of people threatens the planet's unstudied ecosystem - a tenuous research colony must complete its analysis, lest humanity abandon one planet only to die on another. The Earth is dying, and our hopes are pinned on Ubastis, an untamed paradise at the edge of colonized space.
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