Full Tide of Night

More than a century ago, Julia Amalfi escaped - with an A.I. as her only companion and a tiny cache of unborn humans - from a mind-devouring plague afflicting her home planet Earth. In those last days she watched as humanity succumbed, including her beloved Petro. Heartbroken and alone, she set out to the stars to find a safe haven and regenerate the human race. Now, the Lady of Midgard, the second mother of humanity, faces another, perhaps greater challenge: her people have turned on her, rebelled, demanded self-rule. And, to Julia's horror, they will soon welcome a contingent from Earth - representatives of the entities she so narrowly escaped so many years ago.