The Poisoned Ground

By Laurel A. Rockefeller

CORPORATE GREED. CORRUPTION. PLAGUE.

All was well for the southern city of Nanli -- until a mysterious plague filled the city with fear and agony. Duty bound to discover the cause, Lady Abbess Cara races against time to find a cure only to be caught up in a dangerous conspiracy that may claim her life and the lives of billions for generations to come.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Laurel A. Rockefeller
• Release date: Jul 25, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310747366

Laurel A. Rockefeller

Born, raised, and educated in Lincoln, Nebraska USA Laurel A. Rockefeller’s passion for animals comes through in everything she writes. First self-published in 2012 as social science fiction author (the Peers of Beinan series), Laurel has expanded her work into the animal care/guide, history, historical fiction, and biography genres.Find Laurel’s books in digital, paperback, and hardcover in your choice of up to ten languages, including Welsh, Chinese, and Dutch. Audio editions are published in all four available languages for audible: English, French, Spanish, and German.Besides advocating for animals and related environmental causes, Laurel A. Rockefeller is a passionate educator dedicated to improving history literacy worldwide, especially as it relates to women’s accomplishments. In her spare time, Laurel enjoys spending time with her cockatiels, travelling to historic places, and watching classic motion pictures and classic television series.

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The Poisoned Ground

by Laurel A. Rockefeller

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Copyright © 2014 Laurel A. Rockefeller

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The Poisoned Ground is a work of fiction by Laurel A. Rockefeller set on the planet Beinan. All characters are works of fiction without direct reference to any real person, living or dead. While inspired in part by the real-life challenges faced by historical persons, any names or characteristics similar to any person, past, present, or future, is purely coincidental.

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The city of Nan-li in the south-western continent of Xi-Nan Fang glittered dimly over the smog, its silver-white porphyritic granite glinting weakly in the blue-white light of B345A15, the Beinarian sun. Two li 里 outside of the city of five hundred eighty-nine thousand residents, a thick cloud of dark smoke hovered over the massive strip mine run by house Ana.

Lady Abbess Cara’s eyes widened from the back seat of her low altitude shuttle as Lord Knight Ronel expertly piloted the shuttle towards the mine. Where clearly over six hundred thousand ancient trees once stood, only the barest of roots and twigs remained, turning the once lush forest into red-black barren wasteland. Instinctively tears fell from her eyes.

As Lord Ronel lowered the shuttle to the ground, parking it ten zhang 张 from the mine he noticed her tears, Why do you weep, Your Grace?

Can you not feel it, Ronel? The air, the land, even the Amba Mederi Ocean from three hundred li 里 away – all that was good and healthy here is gone, lamented Cara.

Your Grace, Lady Rachel is expecting you. You did call this meeting with her at the mine, remember?

"To verify the reports, yes, of course. When we are done here, I want to