The Invention of Motherhood

<p>Pregnancy is dangerous in the Empire!</p><p> </p><p>For thousands of years Imperial women have used artificial gestation. But Grace was born on barbarian pre-contact Earth. She can't call herself a mother without doing it the hard way at least once.</p><p> </p><p>Grace has married into one of the most important families in the Empire - and Imperial politics are deadly at the top.</p><p> </p><p>Despite the risks she discovers that there are advantages both to herself and to her unborn baby.</p><p> </p><p>The Empire will never be quite the same again.</p>