The Hard ProblemPUBLISHERS LIMITED EDITION Above all don't use the word good as though it meant something in evolutionary science. Hilary, a young psychology researcher at a brain science institute, is nursing a private sorrow and a troubling question at work, where psychology and biology meet. If there is nothing but matter, what is consciousness? This is 'the hard problem' which puts Hilary at odds with her colleagues who include her first mentor Spike, her boss

intrigue and betrayal

came up with the same theory at the same time

Ryan Rossetti isn't in the mood to celebrate

there's going to be a terrible war

His mission is dramatically thrown off course by a series of grisly murders and a spirited and beautiful young woman

of love and death

Lieutenant-Commander David Howard's orders were chillingly clear

imprisoned at his rural school

But Ryan has something that Jake needs: Christina

The novel features various generations over the course of 150 years in interconnecting stories

Before long the terrible truth begins to emerge

the hare Bescarum and the badger Sagaxus