Rose Apple Island

Description

She wasn't allowed to have a name. She wasn't supposed to have a future. A frequent visitor to old, crumbling Earth, Devram Eshra knows all about the outcasts known as "Outlanders." But when he meets the girl scrabbling to survive in a place she's not supposed to be, he uncovers something more than the problems everyone knows about on Humanitie's mother world, and all the strange things about his missions begin to make a little more sense... The first science fiction short story from beloved mystery author Jane Haddam!