Karda: Adalta Vol. I

What do you do if the job your assigned is to introduce hi-tech products to a tech-resistant world? And you have to do it secretly? What do you do when you begin to feel the consciousness of the creatures, even the plants, of this world? When you can feel the hunger of the hawk diving toward the rabbit, and the terror of the rabbit as the talons pierce his body?
What do you do when you are Chosen by a hawk-headed, winged, horse-bodied Karda, and you begin to hear words in your head? And you suddenly experience visions of the future?
What do you do when you start feeling strong connections to your Karda, to the planet itself, to a handsome and arrogant young Heir, and all your training, for all your life has been “Don’t get attached--Don’t get attached?” And when your job is done, you’ll have to leave.
Your name is Marta Rowan, you were raised in and have worked for a Trade Ship all your life. What do you do when you discover their attempt to smuggle high-tech weapons to this planet where no weapons beyond swords and bows are allowed?
And how do you reconcile all your training in technology and rationalism with the strange happenings that seem like magic? And ones that feel evil?
A young adult science fiction fantasy, Karda, first in the series, Adalta, immerses readers in a post-tech world where Earth’s past is the present, and magic and greed fight for the future of the sentient planet.
The book includes Chapter One of Austringer: Adalta Vol. II.