When She Awakes

To pay her father's debt, she must offer herself as coin.In the Pleiadean Satrapy of New Amman, women are not just slaves, or even property—they are commodity money for the wealthiest and most powerful elites. Stores of value, units of account, and a medium of exchange in the upper echelons of the interstellar caliphate, cryofrozen virgins may spend centuries under the ice—or never wake again at all.A revolt against the caliphate's decadence is brewing, but will it come soon enough to prevent Rachel from going under the ice? Or to save her father and sister from slavery, will she take her chances that things will be better when she awakes?