The Grace Seekers

Revised 2019

What if an ancient discovery’s true purpose was misinterpreted?

Tran is a simple plains-dweller driven to a space port city by a relentless drought. She arrives with a surviving younger brother. They fall prey to a devious merchant. He and a dangerous off-worlder wants Tran to sabotage an ancient temple where people are transformed, emerging with different personalities. Rescuing her brother from the merchant’s grip forces Tran into choosing life for her severely injured brother by seeking help from the forbidding guardian of the very temple she has sought to infiltrate, and it might mean losing her soul. Tran might have survived the trek across a desert, but must now fight for life on a different level---or she will be trapped by the temple’s programming into becoming its tool of vengeance. Tran discovers startling truths about the temple and the future of her world. Escaping the temple in order to preserve her true mind and spirit depends on the temple guard. He might hold the key to preventing the coming cataclysm dictated by the temple for her world.

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