Marked By Light (Ambasadora)

SPACE ADVENTURE WITH AN ENSEMBLE CAST!

"The book has a lot of themes, dealing with issues of caste, socialmores, sexuality, freedom and the danger of a person gaining too muchpower over others. Like any good piece of science fiction, it makes thereader really think about things while at the same time creating anentertaining world to experience; in this case, the author took herbackground in anthropology to create a very realistic world. Highlyrecommended."
-K. Sozaeva "Obsessive bibliophile,"  Amazon Top 1000 Reviewer and Vine Voice

"This author's many strengths include complex world building, complexsocietal structure, complex technology. The plot was well-crafted aswell."
-J. Wells, Amazon Vine Voice

"The author has a way ofpaying attention to details to the point where every nuance is covered;the reader will be able to picture the environment, expressions, andscenes very well."
-Chels, Amazon Top 1000 Reviewer

"AMBASADORA has a lot to say about the human spirit and it says it well."
-Mike Resnick, Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author
 
"With an anthropologist's eye for world building and an engaging fast-pacedstyle, Heidi Ruby Miller hurtles her characters through a dystopianlabyrinth in which hollow beauty is revered and love a virtual crime."
-Christopher Paul Carey, author of EXILES FROM KHO
 
"Beautifully vibrant and intricately textured, Heidi Ruby Miller's AMBASADORAexplores the value of true humanity, the limitless power of desire andthe triumph of the individual soul. Amidst edge-of-the-seat action,Miller effortlessly incorporates the conflicts of the modern womaninherent in upholding feminist sensibility. AMBASADORA is a banquet ofsumptuous words, a truly exciting adventure that fans of science fiction are sure to enjoy."
-Mary SanGiovanni, author of THE HOLLOWER series
 
MARKED BY LIGHT is the first book in the Ambasadora science fiction adventureseries. This space thriller contains elements of space opera, sciencefiction romance, cyberpunk, military science fiction, a galactic empire, and anthropological science fiction.
 
If everyone told you love wasn't real, would you still be willing to die for it?

Sara Mendoza and Sean Cryer are.

In their multi-partner, caste-ruled society, love and jealousy areconsidered emotional fallacies, nothing more than fleeting moods andsentiments biased by hormones. Relationships and conceptions in thisworld obsessed with celebrity, beauty, and power are based on DNA andlineages...or should be. But not everyone believes in the rulingtraditions of the all-powerful Embassy. A quiet rebellion prowls thedark underground of this shiny world where techno-militants callingthemselves fraggers grow in numbers and bravado. The Embassy intends tosilence the fragger movement before the heresy of equality spreadsthroughout the system.
 
Sara Mendoza is part of the Embassy'splan. Captured, tortured, and falsely accused of treason, she is given a chance to win back her freedom. She only needs to charm information
from one of the fragger leaders, then kill him. But by the time she figuresout the Embassy's intel is flawed and that Sean Cryer is her true mark,she's already in love with him.
 
Sean knows why Sara is on hisship from the start, but as a lonely, anti-social doser, he doesn'tvalue his life, only his ideology within the fragger organization.Against his better judgment,
he becomes her protector, each day caring more about a future he was always afraid to hope for.

Also read GREENSHIFT (From the World of Ambasadora) and STARRIE (From the World of Ambasadora). 

Heidi Ruby Miller is a travel writer turned novelist. She uses research for her stories as an excuse to roam the globe. Her books include the popular AMBASADORA series (Dog Star Books), MAN OF WAR (Meteor House), which is a sequel to Science Fiction Grandmaster Philip José Farmer's novel TWO HAWKS FROM EARTH, and the international award-winning writing guide MANY GENRES, ONE CRAFT (Headline Books Inc.). In between trips, Heidi teaches creative writing at Seton Hill University, where she graduated from their renowned Writing Popular Fiction Graduate Program the same month she appeared on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. Follow Heidi's writing journey with her husband, Jason Jack Miller, and their two cats in the newsletter Small Space, Big Life and find her on YouTube, her website, and Instagram all as Heidi Ruby Miller.