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While on retreat in a wilderness region of Amargosa, Ellie Nardino stumbles across a man wandering dazed and confused in the forest. Taking him to help, she soon learns he is Baker ibn-Aziz, the former president of the Compact brought down by a mysterious illness. Now Ellie, along with Tishla, will have to smuggle him back into the Compact to learn what really happened to him. Tishla, now a geneticist, takes charge of his case. However, when their pilot betrays them, they find themselves stranded on a frontier world with barely any law and a dark secret. Plus Baker has wandered off in the confusion.

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TS Hottle is a science fiction writer originally from Cleveland. By night, he writes, cooks, golfs, plays video games with his future stepson, and fights with a cat named Tearyon. By day, he is a software developer. Sometimes, he wins against the cat, but not often. For fifteen years, he wrote crime fiction under the name Jim Winter. Now he has returned to his first love, science fiction He has created The Compact Universe, a series of loosely connected space opera tales centered around humans' disastrous first contact with a species known as the Gelt. He lives in the Cincinnati suburb of Deer Park with his fiancee Candy and her son. When not writing or cooking, they both can be found fixing up their newly purchased Cape Cod. Which has a deck. Which makes TS very happy.

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