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The Sixth Discipline

by Carmen Webster Buxton

The Sixth Discipline - Carmen Webster Buxton - Haven
Part of the Haven series:
  • The Sixth Discipline
Editions:Paperback: $ 14.99
ISBN: 978-0-9979898-5-4
Size: 4.00 x 9.00 in
Pages: 547
Kindle - First edition
ISBN: 978-0-9831871-0-3
ePub - First Edition
ISBN: 978-0-9831871-3-4

On the isolated colony world of Haven, the colonists have formed into separate cultures. In the city of Shangri-La, great houses dominate. As heiress of the House of Hayden, Francesca expects her father to arrange a marriage for her, but she thinks he's gone crazy when he heads into the vast Sansoussy Forest to trap a warrior to marry her. But her reaction is mild compared to the warrior's. Ran-Del is s Sansoussy, trained in both the mental and physical Disciplines of his people. He thinks he's prepared for any danger the forest might hold, but his skills prove useless when he's caught in a hi-tech trap. Soon Ran-Del finds himself in a city so alien it might as well be another world—machines speak, vehicles fly, and his captors' weapons can inflict pain without touching him. As terrifying as the city is, his kidnapper, the enigmatic Baron Hayden, exudes a jovial affability that worries the Sansoussy even more. What can such a powerful man want with a Sansoussy warrior, who can neither read nor write and knows nothing of city ways? It's only after it seems that Ran-Del has escaped the city and its dangers, that he finds out how thoroughly he has been caught.

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Tropes: Fish Out of Water
Word Count: 144,000
Setting: Haven (planet)
Languages Available: English
Series Type: Continuous / Same Characters
Tropes: Fish Out of Water
Word Count: 144,000
Setting: Haven (planet)
Languages Available: English
Series Type: Continuous / Same Characters
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About the Author

Carmen Webster Buxton spent her youth reading every book published by Ursula LeGuin, Robert Heinlein and Georgette Heyer. This combination of far-future worlds, alien cultures, and old-fashioned courting customs influenced her writing, especially in her ThreeCon series.

Carmen was born in Hawaii and experienced a peripatetic childhood, as her father was in the US Navy. Having raised two wonderful children, she now lives in Maryland with her husband Charlie, and a beagle named Cosmo. She writes science fiction (often including a romance, and mostly set in the far future), and the occasional fantasy.