Synopsis: Trader's Honour

At the age of fifty-eight, Amandra Bisumar has laid claim to many firsts: Miran’s first female member of the Interplanetary Trader Guild and the first Trader from backward Miran to make it to the Guild’s exclusive judges’ bench. She has more nano-patches than all her peers put together. She’s fair, tough and professional, but she’s afraid of retiring alone. Many years ago, fears of her family’s disapproval of foreigners made her refuse a proposal from her only ever soul mate Ydana Ezmi. These days, they’re uneasy colleagues, their past relationship never mentioned.
Rogue Mirani politician Nemedor Satarin wants to pull Miran out of its rut, and Amandra, from the city’s privileged nobility, is firmly within his range of attack. Amandra is never one to shun a heated debate, but the more she hears of his plans to bring Miran to the front of the interplanetary technology race, the more she becomes intrigued. The more she argues with this charismatic man, the more her heart warms for him. He wants to re-create the hyper-intelligent space-age people who founded the city. Her family and Ydana warn her of Nemedor’s genetic manipulation plans, but a lifetime spent pushing boundaries and fighting prejudice has made her immune to warnings. That is, until she discovers how these plans destroy her business and her extended family.