Two decades ago, a girl like Mirabella inspired one of the most famous songs of all time. A flowering of Brazilian culture during an era of military dictatorship.
Now, the dictatorship has fallen. Revolutionaries have seized control. They promise a new order of liberty and prosperity.
But when she encounters two leaders of the revolution, Mirabella discovers their lofty rhetoric masks personal agendas. Agendas born in chance meetings on Ipanema beach those decades ago.
Her looks have since faded. Now, Mirabella has only her grace and her wits. What must she do to survive a new era of tyranny?
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Raymund Eich files patent applications, earned a Ph.D., won a national quiz bowl championship, writes science fiction and fantasy, and affirms Robert Heinlein's dictum that specialization is for insects.
In a typical day, he may talk with university biology and science communication faculty, silicon chip designers, patent attorneys, epileptologists, and rocket scientists. Hundreds of papers cite his graduate research on the reactions of nitric oxide with heme proteins.
He lives in Houston with his wife, son, and daughter.