Catherine Asaro - Skolia 5 The Quantum Rose

This is an unabridged version, 184MB, running for 13.5 hours.
Encoded as 32kbps MP3 mono - radio quality
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Author and physicist Catherine Asaro combines top rate science and a good love story into an easy and enjoyable read. The Quantum Rose is part of her Skolian Empire Saga.
Heroine Kamoj Quanta Argali is the governor of Argali Province, on the long lost colonial world of Balumil where a year is twenty-standard years long and the winters are lethal. Caring about her dying province more than her own happiness, she has agreed to marry Jax Ironbridge, governor of a neighboring province. This "corporate merger," as they term it, will ensure prosperity for her people and more beatings from this violent man.
Enter the mysterious Hero: Havyrl Lionstar, a masked man who becomes so enamored with Kamoj that he must have her. He sends a ridiculously high dowry to her province so he can have her in marriage and it isn't until the wedding night that these two actually meet. Ahh, it gets better. I won't tell you all of this book's secrets, but you do need to know just a little bit more about Havryl. He's a prince, of course: a Skolian prince, a Ruby psion (meaning telepath able to use ancient Ruby Empire machinery). The Imperial Space Command has brought him into exile after a traumatic escape from the current power structure that thrives on slave trade (Havryl is brother to Kelric and Soz. This story falls, chronologically, after theirs)..
The Quantum Rose is thought-provoking, entertaining, and very, very enjoyable. Asaro begins with interesting scientific and cultural speculation, and then draws in the reader by making the story human and personal for a most satisfying read.
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