A tale from the author of Gothic.
Amelia dreams of Mars. The Mars of movies and imagination, an endless bastion of opportunity for a gutsy settler. But she's stuck in Mexico City, enduring the monotony of an unsavory metropolis, working as a "friend for hire," selling her blood to wealthy old men hoping to rejuvenate themselves with her, acting out a long-broken love affair. And yet there is Mars, so far away and yet so close. She's sure it's waiting for her.
