Hate All Around

by Mary Ellen Wall

Buried weapons from a long-vanished race of Haters keep killing off the exiles on the colony planet of Marguay. Elise t'Hoot saves the citizens in time to discover the Haters didn't vanish at all; they now have Earth in the crosshairs. Elise vies with a dangerously arrogant alien AI, faces the violent death of a close alien friend and loads thousands of folks into her private spaceship, all before her all-out effort to save Earth from the giant mantis-like Haters. What debt do Earth's cast-away exiles owe the Mother Planet? Do the really need to risk everything?

422 pages, Paperback

First published September 10, 2015