Karda: Adalta Vol. I

Marta's job is to bring technology to the scattered worlds of Earth's diaspora. But on Adalta the colonists and the planet itself are techno-phobic. She is deluged by empathic connections to the planet and its creatures, including the Karda she flies. Ordered to seduce Altan, heir to rich Toldar Quadrant, she resists their growing attraction. She discovers an attempt to smuggle advanced weapons, threatening the survival of the planet. Weary of her lonely nomadic life and attracted by the strange power of Adalta, her "no attachment" policy begins to crumble. If she confesses her covert role to Altan, and exposes the hidden Trade Ship, she risks losing the first real connections she has had since her childhood, and must abandon him, her beloved Karda, and Adalta to their fate. A young adult science fiction fantasy, Karda, first in the series, Adalta, immerses readers in a post-tech world where Earth's past is the present, and magic and greed fight for the future of the sentient planet.