YOUR INVITATION TO OBSERVE A PLANET IN PERIL Freed from their recent colonization by advanced and exploitative invaders, the inhabitants of the remote planet of Ben-Ora experienced a season of jubilation after regaining their freedom. The mood of exultation has given way to a malaise of self-doubt and recriminations, and a search to uncover the supposed collaborators with their former persecutors. Now the society is torn by deep divisions and widespread injustice which threaten the social order on the formerly peaceful planet. From this desperate situation, a leader of a besieged minority will emerge, a female, brave and resourceful, who is at the center of a life and death story of survival and heroism. She will attract a small group of allies who will eventually merge with other members of the minority group in what looms as a culminating battle with the government's forces. The first chapter of the novel may be previewed at: www.transcendenceanovel.wordpress.com.