Eclipses v1 0, p.31
Eclipses (v1.0), page 31
“I’m sorry,” Beth said uncomfortably. The habit was so fixed she was barely able to recognize it. She felt Aram’s ^ reassuring squeeze and was able to breathe easily again. “It’s i so good to be with you again,” she said. But he didn’t seem to ’ have heard her, for he was searching in his pockets for something.
“I must have left it upstairs,” he said.
“Left what?”
“A little present I have for you. Come with me and I’ll get it.” His brown eyes were glittering.
“From the bedroom, I suppose,” Beth said, unable to - restrain a grin.
“Yes, as a matter of fact, that’s where it is. Something you’ve been lusting after for thirty-two years.”
Freely, Beth went with him.
ONE FAMILY RULED THE EMPIRE’S PRECIOUS WATER—
AND SO THEY RULED THE PLANET
When Earthborn anthropologist Beth married Aram, the Water Baron’s son, she knew he would soon become Baron of the Empire, the most powerful man on the planet Serensunar.
But as their children grew up within the privileged walls of the Water Baron’s mansion, angry voices outside rose up against the Empire. Now chaos threatened to plunge Serensunar into ecological disaster. And the rebellion spread to Aram’s own household, when his wife and sons deserted him to lead a defiant mission to the End -of the World!
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