Recompense Books 4-5 and Provocation - E-book - ePub

Boxed set includes the final 2 (of 5) books of the Recompense series PLUS a bonus novella:ABDUCTION:(Ruby's story--a full-length prequel.)Ruby Parnell has given little thought to the disappearances happening all across the North American Republic. She's focused entirely on her upcoming high school graduation and subsequent escape. More than anything, she longs to board a ship and leave Tidbury Bay forever.
Though she appreciates the wild beauty of the harbor and the protection its isolation has offered, she needs to get out and touch the world around her. There are a million places she has yet to see. Ruby has another reason for wanting to leave. Namely her sister. How can two people related by blood be such polar opposites? Ruby can never live up to the standard Opal has set; she doesn't even want to try.
Opal is the good student, the uncomplaining worker. She's such a model of perfection that Ruby never sees her betrayal coming. In a moment of emotional recklessness, Ruby flees to the woods alone. She awakens a captive of a cruel race in a land she's never heard of before. She's about to find out what happens to the missing. REPRISAL:(Ethan's story--a full-length sequel.)The revolution is over. Andromeda Macron is dead, and Capernica is free.
But at the sweet moment of triumph, a premature explosion leaves Ethan stranded in a foreign world, pursued by the entire Bruel army and wishing vainly for his partner Jack. But she made it home safely. His one hope is that the explosion didn't destroy all the doors between worlds. If even one portal survived, he intends to find it. In the meantime, the loss of nearly its entire slave labor force has thrown Brunay into chaos.
Fuel shortages and an economic downturn exacerbate tensions between the country's tribal groups, and government efforts to replace the lost workers threaten to send the nation into civil war. But it's the remaining Capernican slaves who bear the brunt of the new policies. Ethan burns to lead the anti-slavery movement, but he's a fugitive, a soldier stripped of all command. He feels useless and ineffective, flung here by a cruel twist of fate.
But then-abandoned, discouraged, and with a price on his head-Ethan discovers a reason to stay in Brunay, even if a portal should open up right in front of him. He just had to travel across the universe to find her. But what does the future hold in a world where slavery is his only legal option? Where the law stands between himself and the woman he loves?PROVOCATION: (Opal's story--a novella-length prequel.)Opal Parnell has grown up on the rocky shores of Tidbury Bay, where winds and waves and freezing winters have carved the world into something wild and beautiful.
It's so far out of the way that strangers need a reason to come here. But beyond her safe harbor, the North American Republic has been plagued by an epidemic of disappearances. There are no crime scenes. No bodies, no evidence, no motives. Thousands have gone missing without a trace. And eventually, tragedy finds Tidbury. Plagued by guilt for the part she played in her sister's vanishing, Opal sets out to find her and stumbles onto evidence that suggests the disappearances aren't as mysterious as the media would have her believe.
Meanwhile, the crisis causes power shifts and corruption that reach into the upper echelons of government. Beneath Opal's feet, Tidbury is changing forever. What's happened to the missing? Who's covering up the truth? And will the Republic survive the upheaval?You've finished Jack's story. Now find out what happened to Ruby, Opal, and Ethan.