Angel on the Ropes

An incomparable trapeze artist who lives to fly is about to hit the ground--hard. Amandine Sand walks a high wire between two lives--hobbled by a life-threatening secret. She's a leopard, one of the spotted humans wrongly accused of being a plague carrier. Leopards like her are hunted by zealots to protect their offworld colony from the scourge. Despite this threat, Amandine spends her days guiding other leopards to an underground shelter run by the pacifist Seekers. At night, with her...
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An incomparable trapeze artist who lives to fly is about to hit the ground--hard. Amandine Sand walks a high wire between two lives--hobbled by a life-threatening secret. She's a leopard, one of the spotted humans wrongly accused of being a plague carrier. Leopards like her are hunted by zealots to protect their offworld colony from the scourge. Despite this threat, Amandine spends her days guiding other leopards to an underground shelter run by the pacifist Seekers. At night, with her own spots hidden, she takes to the air, the one place this extraordinary artist feels free and gloriously alive. When the persecution of leopards explodes into widespread violence, Amandine's two worlds collide. With vigilantes threatening the Seeker safe haven, the Seekers demand more of her time. But her circus is teetering toward bankruptcy and desperately needs her, too. She has no time to breathe...and then she meets a stranger who leaves her breathless. Amandine falls in love, flying from one entanglement into another far riskier. If her trust is misplaced and she's unmasked, everyone she loves--and everything she's fought for--could crash. Now she must make an irrevocable leap. Without a net. Can a leopard summon the courage to reveal her true colors? Can a pacifist defend her violent enemies to stop a civil war? Can a reluctant angel fly beyond her limits to save her life, her love, and her world?