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    A Planet's Price: Ransomeers, #3
    A Planet's Price: Ransomeers, #3
    A Planet's Price: Ransomeers, #3
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    A Planet's Price: Ransomeers, #3

    By C.M. Simpson

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    Missing colonists found. Check. Treaties signed. Check. Request for assistance received. Che—What?

     

    With New Haven missing two colonists in suspicious circumstances, it's up to Mitch and I to find them. Something about the Heritage and us having done this kind of thing before and can we find them pretty please. Ugh.

     

    With details light on the ground, we're only sure of one thing: That whatever we're about to get ourselves into? It's going to be a lot more complicated than anyone can expect.

     

    The only question is: Can we survive this, too? Or will the Heritage finally gain the advantage they need to take us down for good?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherC.M. Simpson Publishing
    Release dateMar 19, 2023
    ISBN9798215768235
    A Planet's Price: Ransomeers, #3
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    C.M. Simpson

    I spent the first twenty years of my life living in different parts of Queensland and the Northern Territory. My father was a teacher who liked to travel, so he took teaching appointments in all kinds of places. I don’t think I stayed in one place for more than four years at a stretch. I wrote stories for most of that time, drawing on the different landscapes we encountered and giving a hyper-active imagination somewhere to run. Seeing so many different places gave me a lot of food for thought as I stepped into the world of adulthood and took my first full-time job, and I never stopped writing and exploring the worlds in my head. So far, I have written four collections of short stories and poetry, and a number of novels, with many more to come. I hope you have enjoyed this part of my journey.

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