A Rumor of Angels

✍ Scribed by Marjorie B. Kellogg

• Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
• Year: 1983;2014
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 229 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1625670796

✦ Synopsis

Reality is in the eye of the beholder.

After six years in a maximum-security prison, political dissident and photographer Jude Rowe will take freedom at whatever price it is offered. She's naturally suspicious of the authorities' deal--liberation from the Wards in exchange for her service on the paradise planet of Arkoi. A parallel world to the overpopulated and environmentally depleted Terra, Arkoi has enough open land and raw materials to revitalize a dying Terra, making it a playground for scientists and a resort for the ultra-rich.

The Terran colony spreads like a blight, pushing at its boundaries, subjugating Arkoi's improbably small and seemingly primitive native population, and threatening to destroy a world that has existed unchanged for centuries. Yet, every Terran expedition past the colony's borders has ended in death or insanity, spurring rumors of Others and Dark Powers lurking beyond the ring of mountains called the Guardians.

Now, accompanied...