Breath of Life
130 pages
|Published: 10 Jun 2011
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Format: Ebook
Publication date: 10 June 2011
Description
Anika Jespers, a homesteader's daughter on a Gaian colony, thinks she's destined for a dull existence on her family's farm. But when her father makes an impossible bargain with their neighbor, one of the alien Zhore, she faces a future different from anything she could have possibly imagined.The familiar story of Beauty and the Beast takes on new life in this inventive SF romance novella, with the Beauty a homesteader's daughter and the Beast an alien on a faraway colony world.Novella: 32,000 words, approximately 120 pages