Bonded to strangers . . . exiled to an almost barren planet . . . five hundred couples expected to die fight to carve out a life on GREEN WORLD. Lyra the Songbird refuses to fail or allow anyone else to do so. She's a Follower and doesn't believe in coincidence Beautiful Lyra has watched Earth's Echelon use and toss aside their Labors, the slave class of their society, for decades. Seth Crendel, her master and retired military hero has raised her as a daughter, although she can never be his equal in public, where her voice entrances all who hear her. Now her master has been convicted of...