Ash and Water

Due to civil war, the three home planets abandoned their outlying colony worlds. Thousands of years later, with the war resolved, the home planets want to reclaim the Fourth World and the people who live upon it. But is it a reclaiming, or an invasion?Briar's life has been turned upside down by the return of Thorn's people, and her heart torn out by his return to the home planets. Will she ever see him again? Will his people allow him to return?When Thorn's mission is successful, he sends his brother as his envoy, to retrieve Briar and take her to the newly established second world outpost, whilst he continues to negotiate his return to the Fourth World.As Briar grows to know Thorn's people, she finds herself increasingly sympathetic to their arrival on her world. Can Briar help forge the bridge between Thorn's people and her own?