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Author:

Bentley, C. F., author.

Title:

Mourner / C.F. Bentley.

Publisher:

Book View Cafe,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

300 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Women priests--Fiction.
Space warfare--Fiction.
Space colonies--Fiction.
Extraterrestrial beings--Fiction.
Science fiction.
Guerre spatiale--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Colonies spatiales--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Extraterrestres--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Extraterrestrial beings.
Science fiction.
Space colonies.
Space warfare.
Women priests.
Fiction.

Other Authors:

Bohnhoff, Maya Kaathryn, cover.
Radford, Irene, donor. donor. IaU

Notes:

Novel. Cover design by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff. "Irene Radford writing as C.F. Bentley." XCOL copy #1: Materials removed from MsC1221 (Phyllis Irene Radford papers). IaU

Summary:

William Gladstone once pointed out that a culture reveals itself in how it cares for its dead. MOURNER, the third book in the Harmony series, vividly explores how three very different cultures treat their dead when the body of Laud Gregor, Harmony's High Priest, goes missing between First Contact Café Space Station and the Harmony homeworld. Laud Gregor cannot be regarded as legally dead until he is officially buried--which means that Laudae Sissy, Harmony's High Priestess, cannot institute the reforms her culture desperately needs until a new High Priest is named. Suspects abound, from the repulsive Dragons, who show up to claim the space station as lost property, to the secretive avian Maril, to disaffected power brokers closer to home. It doesn't help that Jake Devlin, commander of the station, finds himself haunted by the impatient Laud while he navigates all these new threats and trying to solve the mystery--and to figure out how he and Sissy can possibly surmount the cultural differences that obstruct their growing love. Add in Jake's former boss, the evasive spymaster Pammy, and tension escalates, especially when the body seems to keep moving. Can Harmony find peace? Will there ever be a happy ending for Sissy and Jake?

Series:

Confederated Star Systems series ; 3
Bentley, C. F. Confederated Star Systems series ; 3.

ISBN:

1611386799
9781611386790

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1046450034

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)