Displacement Duology

Is fate negotiable? Yaniqui's finally made it to the supposed safety of Earth, but at what cost? Her mother's missing, galactic corporations hunt her for her healing abilities, and she has to live with the man she once loved who's now married to someone else. Unbeknownst to Yaniqui, her fate will depend on others also chasing a brighter future. Ippa, once disgraced by university expulsion, has been captured by a bounty contractor en route to Yaniqui. Lozen and D-68 lose all allies trying to right the narrative of an alien understood by no Earthling. Yaniqui herself is under pressure by an Earth government that would like to come due on their investment in her interstellar rescue. While life on Earth should be an opportunity for Yaniqui to replace the planet and home she lost, it's not. She fears that more than just not fitting in, fate is broken.

It is dangerous to heal oneself. In a galaxy where the last rare resource is unique humans, Yaniqui knows her ability to heal is priceless. She lives in hiding on a dry labor planet, mourning the loss of her engagement to Hloban, the man she loved. Yaniqui is discovered when she heals an injured migrant worker and word of her abilities travels all the way to Earth, where Hloban lives - with his wife. He hasn't seen Yaniqui since childhood, but that doesn't stop him from immediately assembling a rescue party. As the estranged, would-be-lovers are pulled across the stars, the surprising involvement of the small planet becomes undeniable. An Indigenous woman living in the environmentally fractured United States, an expelled student from an elite galactic university, and an alien who thinks only in the present tense discover Earth's enigmatic role in the interstellar trafficking trade. As Yaniqui and her unlikely companions fight for her freedom, she must ask: even if she escapes, can she ever truly be safe in this universe?