Ergebnis für "Shame" in Science Fiction

All Noelle Cunningham has ever wanted is a life beyond - beyond the walls of Eden, where only the righteous are allowed to remain, and beyond her stiflingly restrictive existence as a councilman's daughter. But only ruins lie outside the City, remnants of a society destroyed by solar storms decades earlier. The sectors surrounding Eden house the corrupt, the criminal-men like Jasper McCray, bootlegger and cage fighter.

Based on the testing required of all girls her age, 18-year-old Beatrice has been deemed by her planet's government to be highly suitable as a bride. But before she is stripped bare and publicly presented to a set of up-and-coming men, she must be trained. That task falls to Colonel John Quinst, who will serve as her guardian until she is ready to be given to one of her suitors.