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The Cost of Lies (Jenny Black Wolf - Curran TaZarin, Bk 5)
The Cost of Lies - Jenny Black Wolf - Curran TaZarin, Bk 5 Author:Renee Wood What is the cost of lies? Of falsified records and deliberately corrupted data? Of pretending a problem doesn't exist or will go away on its own? Of believing your past will never catch up to you? Of imagining that the health of the forest doesn't affect anything else? Jenny Black Wolf is working with a Dalt... more »-Ex forest inventory crew on Sixtos, a Deniban colony world, in a vastly changed landscape altered by years of exploitation and abandonment. Two of the forestry techs on her crew get sick. One of them dies. As soon as her contract with Dalt-Ex ends, she leaves the forest to be with Savit and Lail, her first husband's parents. It's been almost ten years since she's seen them.
Curran TaZarin, the man she married after Kristin's death, and his friend Dr. David Rawlins are also on Sixtos, working with an Alliance Assessment Group based in Spring River, where David discovers that the Provincial disease surveillance system is barely functioning, and the public health service's statistics are dangerously inaccurate and getting more so. Curran befriends a troubled teenage boy who appears to be living on the streets. He offers the boy a chance to come to Savit and Lail's farm with him, and Jaedin accepts, but the boy takes an immediate and intense dislike to Jenny.
With Jaedin's anger and resentment threatening to boil over, he and Jenny begin working together on the farm. Then a chance conversation and a series of aerial photographs draw them deep into the forest to an abandoned farm, an old prescribed burn, and a mystery neither knew existed. One that could get them both killed just as they're beginning to understand the true cost of lies.« less