From the award-winning author of the Samaria Trilogy comes a classic Romeo and Juliet romance set on a world far from our own...<P>A scientist by nature, Nolan used his rational powers of observation to question the privileges he was born to enjoy -- and the people he was raised to despise. A rebel at heart, Katrini followed her fiercest passions in the struggle to overthrow a legacy of hate -- one that had poisoned her family for generations...<P>On a planet divide between rich and poor, strong and weak, intellect and feeling, only one thing could bring these two opposites together. A strictly forbidden desire. For justice. For equality. And for each other.