<p>Book1 of the second Maauro series: Maauro has played many roles in the fifty millennia of her existence android war machine friend and lover. Now she lies buried in grief from a role she never wanted - having outlived her friends and husband. But a seachange is coming in the most unlikely form a fleeing teenage Thieves Guild trainee Dassa Falkayan granddaughter of Dusko. Maauro reawakens to engage in new adventures but bearing the legacy of all that has come before.</p>