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Even after years on Orestes, Trey Maturin could not overcome her dislike of the Orestean social code. All the more so because, as sworn Medium for the great House of Hallex, she frequently found herself partner to the code's often cruel injunctions.
For 1,500 years, the Orestean code had held together a society carved out of a cold, material-poor moon of the planet Agamemnon, dividing its territories among the five great Families. The code demanded the utmost loyalty to one's Family. To break it meant "death" - a legal declaration that banished the offender into a sharply defined social limbo. He or she became a ghost, unseen by the living. One could communicate with the dead only through a Medium, such as Trey; to do otherwise meant suffering social death oneself.
There had been a time when the harsh code had served its purpose. On a world simmering with interfamilial rivalry, it has, with sanctioned Feuds, kept in check the ambitious and hatreds that might have completely destroyed Orestean civilzation.
But Trey had long felt the tremors that would begin to destroy the code. For her employers, House Hallax, had been pioneering off-world trade, building their only markatable resources, fur and wool, into a rich source of income. Such commerce had brought new, exotic influences to insular Orestes...and excited the jealousy of their chief rival, the powerful, unscroupulous House of Brandr.
The Brandr, who had been biding their time, reopened an ancient feud against Hallex. And suddenly Trey, who sought to remain apart from the orestean code, found herself custodian of the 14-year-old heir to the Hallex patriarchy...trapped by her duty while her world, seething with economic and social unrest, moved toward war and devastation.
Hunted by the Brandr, abandoned by the other Families, Trey foun that a crippled off-world spaceship captain and a ragtag band of ghosts were her only allies. But those allies had their own ambitions and dreams to fulfill, and the bold, dangerous plan they concieved threatened to shatter what was left of Orestes.

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