Freedom's Choice

Having survived their unplanned exile to the alien-seeded planet Botany, Kris Bjornsen, the renegade Catteni officer Zainal and their fellow deportees turn from bare survival to something more ambitious: building an actual society out of scavenged supplies, native resources and a very mixed bag of human and alien skills. Complications arrive from above as much as from the ground, since the Catteni empire has its own reasons to keep watching this colony, and Zainal's standing among his own people is far from settled. The second book of Anne McCaffrey's Catteni series continues the story begun in Freedom's Landing.