num_pages: 130
description: Anika Jespers a homesteader's daughter on a Gaian colony thinks she's destined for a dull existence on her family's farm. But when her father makes an impossible bargain with their neighbor one of the alien Zhore she faces a future different from anything she could have possibly imagined.The familiar story of Beauty and the Beast takes on new life in this inventive SF romance novella with the Beauty a homesteader's daughter and the Beast an alien on a faraway colony world.Novella: 32000 words approximately 120 pages
language: None
title: Breath of Life
publisher: None