{"product_id":"treelight-colleen-drippzs-9781548854010","title":"Treelight","description":"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnother Lost Rythans\/Star Brothers adventure.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOn Treelight Colony, nothing is what it seems.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTreelight Colony has enjoyed more than a hundred years of peaceful, agrarian life, in isolation from the rest of the civilized galaxy. But now they have been bought by the unsavory Pesc Corporation, who plan to drag them into the modern world and make them part of the interstellar family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePesc sends Marja Sienko, a social engineer on her first assignment, along with her corporate slave and a robotic secretary, to prepare the colonists to be modernised. But it isn't long before Marja suspects that the Corporation has something else in mind - something both sinister and mysterious. And she is meant to play a part in their plans - not as their delegate but as their victim.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile Marja struggles to modernise landowners who prefer to live like medieval vassals, the Star Brothers arrive for their periodic visit to check on the colony diocese, and Brother Brendan Stillman and his two semi-civilised Lost Rythan \"helpers\" discover that something is rotten in the \"peaceful\" colony of Treelight. Highwaymen abound, the bishop knows more than he's telling, and a group of \"druids\" have formed a symbiotic relationship with the surrounding forest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrother Brendan's superior, Father Moto, deploys Dust, a former criminal turned hacker, to snoop through the Pesc Corporation's files to discover what's really afoot, while, back on Treelight, the native forest - whose \"trees\" are more than mere vegetation - slowly toils to reclaim the planet as its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen the truth comes out, it means life will never be the same again for any of them.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Colleen Drippé\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1548854018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781548854010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/03\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d","brand":"Colleen Drippé","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47759250817279,"sku":"9781548854010","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5a0be9f2-7896-49d9-b952-f4a7b52e893e.jpg?v=1765512406","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/treelight-colleen-drippzs-9781548854010","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}