A haunting chimera of a science fiction story and a morality play– Captured won’t fit into a conventional genre. A human woman, destined for the lucrative meat market, is saved by the very Attun trapper who captured her. Ekkatt seeks absolution for his many sins while Mari must deal with her own inner turmoil. After all, she’s sleeping with the enemy. Everywhere the couple turns death awaits, either at the hands of law enforcement or the religious authorities.

In this far distant corner of the galaxy, despite the dangers posed by the journey, Mari and Ekkatt search the wilderness of Attun-Ra for a rumored sanctuary. They have no other choice.

“Live each day as if it were your last.” Written in Greek by the only Roman emperor who was also a philosopher, without any intention of publication, Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations offers a remarkable series of challenging spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the emperor struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe.

Ranging from doubt and despair to conviction and exaltation, they cover such diverse topics as the nature of moral virtue, human rationality, divine providence, and Marcus’s own emotions. But while The Meditations was composed to provide personal consolation and encouragement, in developing his beliefs Marcus Aurelius also created one of the greatest of all works of philosophy: a timeless collection of extended meditations and short aphorisms that has been consulted and admired by statesmen, thinkers, and readers throughout the centuries.