The Inner Circle

Settling on a world just barely cleared of hostile flesh-eating plants, Catherine Bailey, the daughter of Brigadier Bailey and the betrothed to Lieutenant Charles Dubois (a candidate for membership in the Inner Circle), discovers that the world they had settled on was not uninhabited after all. But the Inner Circle, their exclusive governing body that manages their small society of survivors, has been keeping that and even darker secrets under wraps--secrets that soon directly affects Catherine's future. Sequel to The Race