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Confederated Star Systems #3
Mourner
William Gladstone once pointed out that a culture reveals itself in how it cares for its dead.
Mourner, the third book in the Harmony series, vividly explores how three very different cultures treat their dead when the body of Laud Gregor, Harmony's High Priest, goes missing between First Contact Café Space Station and the Harmony homeworld. Laud Gregor cannot be regarded as legally dead until he is officially buried--which means that Laudae Sissy, Harmony's High Priestess, cannot institute the reforms her culture desperately needs until a new High Priest is named.
Suspects abound, from the repulsive Dragons, who show up to claim the space station as lost property, to the secretive avian Maril, to disaffected power brokers closer to home. It doesn't help that Jake Devlin, commander of the station, finds himself haunted by the impatient Laud while he navigates all these new threats and trying to solve the mystery--and to figure out how he and Sissy can possibly surmount the cultural differences that obstruct their growing love.
Add in Jake's former boss, the evasive spymaster Pammy, and tension escalates, especially when the body seems to keep moving.
Can Harmony find peace? Will there ever be a happy ending for Sissy and Jake?
Mourner, the third book in the Harmony series, vividly explores how three very different cultures treat their dead when the body of Laud Gregor, Harmony's High Priest, goes missing between First Contact Café Space Station and the Harmony homeworld. Laud Gregor cannot be regarded as legally dead until he is officially buried--which means that Laudae Sissy, Harmony's High Priestess, cannot institute the reforms her culture desperately needs until a new High Priest is named.
Suspects abound, from the repulsive Dragons, who show up to claim the space station as lost property, to the secretive avian Maril, to disaffected power brokers closer to home. It doesn't help that Jake Devlin, commander of the station, finds himself haunted by the impatient Laud while he navigates all these new threats and trying to solve the mystery--and to figure out how he and Sissy can possibly surmount the cultural differences that obstruct their growing love.
Add in Jake's former boss, the evasive spymaster Pammy, and tension escalates, especially when the body seems to keep moving.
Can Harmony find peace? Will there ever be a happy ending for Sissy and Jake?
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First published December 22, 2015
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December 22, 2015Fans of the first two books in this series will enjoy this wrap-up of the story: a missing body and some really nasty aliens cause a ruction at Jake's space station, drawing High Priestess Sissy back again. The two work together to extricate Harmony, and the station, from dangers . . . and find that the impossible can be made real.
February 11, 2016
This is the third book in the series and after book two kept me wondering, I really enjoyed this novel. Aliens and humans altogether bizarre but works well.
This is a melting pot of science fiction, amazingly a bit of romance and masses of fantasy to take you off to another world – well it is cold here in February.
So if you are seeking this and a little adventure seek this author out today.
This is a melting pot of science fiction, amazingly a bit of romance and masses of fantasy to take you off to another world – well it is cold here in February.
So if you are seeking this and a little adventure seek this author out today.
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