Light Raid

Book excerpt: "A civil war is raging, between the eastern half of North America and the west. The latest methods of destruction are...called light raids--massive laser-beam assaults....Seventeen-year-old Hellene Ariadne, daughter of a prominent Western scientist, has been evacuated to Victoria for her protection. When the letters from her parents suddenly stop, Ariadne...return[s] to her home in Denver Springs. There she finds her house in ruins, devasted by a savage light raid. Ariadne assumes that her parents are dead. But the truth is much worse: her mother is in prison, accused of sabotage of treason, and her father is left helpless...It is up to Ariadne to clear her mother's name. But as she plunges deeper and deeper into a fatal web of intrigue and deception, she discovers there are truths far more shocking than war" --From dust jacket.