Las Minas - Paperback

by Walt Edinger (Author)

After escaping from Blackrock and crash-landing on a planet far outside the normal trading routes, Kelsey spends years wishing she could return home to The Plots. When she learns that workers are being recruited for mining a new source of Lustar, she knows the barons have found her home world and is determined to return.

When Kelsey arrives, she discovers a world divided between her people and the outsiders who have come to strip away the planet's wealth, bringing with them modern technology and ideas of profit and competition. To preserve what is left of the community's values, the new leader of The Plots, Joale, isolates her people from the off-worlders and any who have been exposed to their ideas, including Kelsey. The Plots, shaped by the values of cooperation and sharing, turns its back on its own people in an effort to preserve the old ways. Seeking to find a place for herself in this changed world, Kelsey finds herself in conflict with the very people she came back to help.