A Hugo Awardwinning author presents a generational saga about the fate of human freedom on a colonized alien world.

The settlers of the extrasolar moon Coyote escaped the tyrannical United Republic of America on Earth to create a home for themselves where they could pursue lives free from persecution-a colony they named Liberty. But that regime was overthrown by the Western Hemisphere Union, a social collectivist government that seized Republic resources and followed the colonists across the stars to claim the settlement-and the world-as Union property.

Outnumbered and outgunned by an occupying force, Coyote's pioneers nevertheless refuse to surrender. Abandoning their village, they settle on a different continent where they establish the town of Defiance, hidden from their enemies. But when Liberty's meager supplies prove insufficient to feed and house the one thousand people who arrived under the Union's banner, violent factions arise and compete to survive, undermining collectivist beliefs and military authority.

To prevent Union expansion and retake Liberty, the people of Defiance are willing to wage war. But even as the human conflict escalates, the challenges of Coyote's alien landscape threaten them all...

"Would make Robert A. Heinlein proud." -Entertainment Weekly

"Unlike most series books, readers will enjoy this one whether they have read the first installment or not." -Rocky Mountain News