Description
If everyone told you love wasn't real, would you still be willing to die for it?
Sara Mendoza and Sean Cryer are.
In
their multi-partner, caste-ruled society, love and jealousy are
considered emotional fallacies, nothing more than fleeting moods and
sentiments biased by hormones. Relationships and conceptions in this
world obsessed with celebrity, beauty, and power are based on DNA and
lineages...or should be. But not everyone believes in the ruling
traditions of the all-powerful Embassy. A quiet rebellion prowls the
dark underground of this shiny world where techno-militants calling
themselves fraggers grow in numbers and bravado. The Embassy intends to
silence the fragger movement before the heresy of equality spreads
throughout the system.
Sara Mendoza is part of the Embassy's
plan. Captured, tortured, and falsely accused of treason, she is given a
chance to win back her freedom. She only needs to charm information
from one of the fragger leaders, then kill him. But by the time she
figures out the Embassy's intel is flawed and that Sean Cryer is her
true mark, she's already in love with him.
Sean knows why Sara is
on his ship from the start, but as a lonely, anti-social doser, he
doesn't value his life, only his ideology within the fragger
organization. Against his better judgment, he becomes her protector,
each day caring more about a future he was always afraid to hope for.
Praise and Reviews
AMBASADORA has a lot to say about the human spirit, and it says it well.
--Mike Resnick, Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author
With
an anthropologist's eye for world building and an engaging fast-paced
style, Miller hurtles her characters through a dystopian labyrinth in
which hollow beauty is revered and love a virtual crime.
--Christopher Paul Carey, THE SONG OF KWASIN
Beautifully vibrant and intricately textured, Heidi Ruby Miller's
AMBASADORA explores the value of true humanity, the limitless power of
desire and the triumph of the individual soul. Miller's characters blaze
with life and lust and depth, and her world is a dichotomy of the
glamorously sensual and the brutally dangerous. Amidst edge-of-the-seat
action, Miller effortlessly incorporates the conflicts of the modern
woman inherent in upholding feminist sensibility. AMBASADORA is a
banquet of sumptuous words, a truly exciting adventure that fans of
science fiction are sure to enjoy.
--Mary SanGiovanni, author of THE HOLLOWER and THRALL