Outcaste: Volume 6

Perhaps casual nudity wasn’t Kim’ s best idea.

Kimberly Storm-Gale has to make it back to Tau Ceti University-- and fast-- after his peaceful research sabbatical is turned upside down by corporate predators. As he struggles to find a way to remain a free man, he doesn’ t expect his research subjects to kidnap him. Grandchild of the Jorann or not, Halla is a burden. She is also an outcaste, born to Sanctuary Venak and living in Sanctuary Aanesh, where she has struggled for years to survive the loss of her life-partner-- a battle she is slowly losing. Kim and Halla begin to dream about one another even before circumstances throw them together on Tolar, but now they have more to deal with than just their growing attraction: Kim may not be who he thinks he is. Outcaste is the engrossing sixth book in the Tales of Tolari Space science fiction series.

If you like planetary adventure and heart-warming romance, you’ll love Christie Meierz’ tales of the reclusive Tolari.

Retired Linux hacker and perennial language student, Christie Meierz began writing space opera while recovering from a life-threatening illness. Her debut novel, a science fiction romance set on a world of empaths at the edge of an advancing human empire, won the PRISM Award for Futuristic Romance in 2013. She has followed it up with four more novels set in Tolari space and several short stories. She is an active member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA), earned a SCUBA ticket despite a morbid fear of drowning, and has been declared capable of learning Yup’ ik. Christie now lives in Rochester, NY, where she and her mathematician husband serve as full-time staff to two parlor panthers known to humans as Banichi the Assassin and Miss Myrtle the Hurricane Cat. Their true names remain a mystery.