Laldasa: Beloved Slave

by Maya Bohnhoff

Overview

Anala Nadim is a free woman until she travels to the planet Mehtar to procure supplies for her father’s mining operation on Mehtar’s impoverished sister world—the colony planet Avasa. When a twist of fate enslaves Anala to the Lord Prince Jaya Sarojin, Anala is engaged in a battle to free herself from slavery and her world from subjugation to a corrupt Mehtaran consortium. So begins a tale of greed, betrayal, political intrigue and love that introduces both Jaya and Anala to lives they had never before imagined.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012816771
Publisher:	Book View Cafe
Publication date:	07/01/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Maya became addicted to science fiction when her dad let her stay up late to watch The Day the Earth Stood Still. Mom was horrified. Dad was unrepentant. Maya slept with a night-light in her room until she was 15.

She started her writing career sketching science fiction comic books in the last row of her third grade classroom. She was never apprehended. Since then her short fiction has been published in Analog, Amazing Stories, Century, Realms of Fantasy, Interzone, Paradox and Jim Baen’s Universe. Look for her British Science Fiction Award finalist The White Dog along with a variety of her short fiction on the Café shelves.

Her debut novel, The Meri (Baen), was a Locus Magazine 1992 Best First Novel nominee (now available as a trade paperback from Sense of Wonder Press). Since, she has published five more speculative fiction novels, the latest of which, Mr. Twilight (Del Rey) was co-written with Michael Reaves. She also worked with Michael Reaves on Star Wars — Coruscant Nights III: Patterns of Force, and the duo collaborated on a new Star Wars novel, Star Wars: Shadow Games (November 2011).

Maya lives in San Jose where she writes, performs, and records original and parody (filk) music with her husband and awesome musician and music producer, Chef Jeff Vader, All-Powerful God of Biscuits. The couple frequently serves as Guest of Honor at science fiction/fantasy conventions and at filk music gatherings, and has been honored with Pegasus Awards for Best Parody and Best Performer. They’ve produced five music albums: RetroRocket Science, Aliens Ate My Homework and Grated Hits (parody), and the original music CDs Manhattan Sleeps and Mobius Street. To top it off, they’ve also produced three musical children: Alex, Avery, and Amanda.