Liberty's World

<b>From the back cover of the DAW first edition:</b> <p>The planet seemed the salvation for the dying colony ship <i>Invictus</i>, except... within a day of landing, the colonists found the world to be inhabited and themselves caught between two opposing cannibalistic armies. <p>For Liberty Ibarra, who learned languages fast, the situation called for courage, tact, and a blind faith in the aliens' envoy, the brother of the enigmatic emperor... until she learned that her "friend" was also a political schemer with a talent for assassination. Then it began to look as though the humans had dived over the edge of the pan straight into the fire. <p>