Sharon Shinn

On a planet torn apart by class and economic divisions and feuding factions, a scientist and a rebel are drawn together in a forbidden love that could change their world forever.... Nolan uses his rational powers of observation to examine more closely the privileges he was born to enjoy-and the people he was raised to despise. Katrini follows her fiercest passions in the struggle to overthrow a legacy of hate-one that has poisoned her family for generations.
Between rich and poor, strong and weak, intellect and feeling, only one thing could bring these two opposites together: a passion that is strictly forbidden.