Worksheet 6

 WORKSHEET 6

If your novel requires a back plot, please give a brief summary.

EXAMPLE:  In STAR-CROSSED, the plague which totally changed Arden's society mutated into a harmless form twenty years after the first outbreak.  By this time, the women in power didn't want to let go of that power or emancipate the men so they didn't tell the population about this.  

To keep up the harem population, the leaders told mothers of newborn boys that their child had died of the plague then put the child into the harem system.  

Mara's mother, Jorel, was the premiere scientist on Arden, and when it was time for her to choose her mate for a year from the lottery, she met Adam Randell, an Earth astrophysicist whose spaceship had been damaged by the nearby asteroid belt.  They fell in love, but she was unable to free him although he was a scientist.  When she became pregnant with Mara, he killed himself before he could be returned to the lottery.

Embittered, Jorel began to hack into the government computers, etc., to find a way to destroy the harem system.  She discovered the horrific truth but didn't dare risk destroying the system because she feared for Mara's safety.

Before she died, she gave all this information to Novia to give to Mara if she was ever faced with losing her own mate or risked losing a boy to the lottery.

By the time Cadaran came into power, the use of men as bribes and the money from their sale was rampant.  Cadaran made the system even more brutal to build her power structure, and she also started slaving operations in the nearby star lanes to acquire off-world “exotic” men.  

Tristan and Kellen were victims of these slavers.

Novia fears for Mara's safety, and she distrusts Tristan so she refuses to share this information when Tristan comes into their lives.