A Novel of the Concorde
Hearthguest
Not hostages. Guests.
Sixty years after the Long War, seven crowns keep the peace with a strange bargain. Every year each one chooses a few of its eighteen-year-olds and sends them to live, for one year, in the homes of its old enemies.
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About the author
At seventeen, B. B. Daber was chosen to spend a year as an exchange student in Brazil. He arrived speaking no Portuguese, lived with four host families, kept a journal the whole year, and somewhere along the way came out of his shell.
Hearthguest is his first novel. It was inspired by that year, but it is entirely a work of fiction: its world, its characters and everything that happens to them are invented.
Away from the page, he writes software, builds robots and watches baseball.