num_pages: 393
description:  As an adamant opponent of Terran settlement on the planet Jekh Owen McGarry made his family name synonymous with traitor on Earth. Lobbyists standing to profit from off-world colonisation hinted that the Jekhans were preparing to declare war! Nearly twenty years after Owens supposed death his granddaughter Courtney wants to learn the truth - even if she has to travel to the far-flung colony to do it! Court soon learns that not only was her grandfather right about the Jekhans but that conditions on their world are far more hostile than she feared. Terran forces decimated the population of the resident human-alien hybrids and the people who remain seem to be all out of fight. That is except for the pair of men Court finds hiding in her basement... Fugitives Murki and Trigrian see a future in Court. On a planet where so few women remain she has the potential to be the mate the lovers need. And more she could become the advocate for their people that her grandfather didnt get the chance to be... When the corrupt local government seeks to punish Courts friends and family for her actions she has no choice but to make a stand. If it takes a riot to make the people on Earth see that they were misled about Jekh shes more than willing to start one. After all her reputation couldnt possibly get any worse! ERSTWHILE is a romantic adventure set in the near future that contains dark humour some violence and a very needy pair of extraterrestrials. 
language: English
title: Erstwhile
publisher: None