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Anala Nadim is a free woman until she travels to the planet Mehtar to procure supplies for her father's mining operation on Mehtar's impoverished sister world-the colony planet Avasa. When a twist of fate enslaves Anala to the Lord Prince Jaya Sarojin, Anala is engaged in a battle to free herself from slavery and her world from subjugation to a corrupt Mehtaran consortium. So begins a tale of greed, betrayal, political intrigue and love that threatens to tear Anala from her spiritual path, and introduces both her and Jaya to true darkness.Laldasa is Sanskrit for "beloved slave" and I think it's a fitting title for a story of class boundaries, racial prejudices and the one power capable of overcoming them. It's the story of one small woman battling a political machinery over which she has no control and one supposedly powerful man who realizes that he is as much a pawn of the machinery as the casteless woman he befriends.As a writer of science fiction and fantasy, I've often sat on convention panels with titles like, 'Hey, you got mystery in my fantasy!' or 'Oops, there's romance in my science fiction!' I don't have a recipe for what happened in Laldasa-I just wrote it to taste. So if I got mystery in your SF, I only did it because, darn it, I think it makes for a richer 'dish.'- Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff is the New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen novels of speculative fiction and several collections of short fiction. She is a member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and Mystery Writers of America (MWA), and is a founding member of the Book View Café online publishing co-op.Her short works have been featured in Analog, Amazing Stories, Realms of Fantasy, Interzone, and Jim Baen's Universe and have been finalists for the Nebula, Crawford, Sidewise and British Science Fiction awards.Her debut mystery/detective novel is THE ANTIQUITIES HUNTER (from Pegasus Crime) and her most recent science fiction title (a collaboration with Michael Reaves) was New York Times bestseller THE LAST JEDI.She is also a musician/singer/songwriter and performs and records original and filk/parody music with husband Jeff. Their latest release is, "Schrodinger's Hairball"Websites: www.maybonhoff.com, www.bookviewcafe.com