The Light Temple of Yash

Two teenage protagonists are on a search, unbeknownst to each other, for the same woman. Eban, the older brother, is expected to attend military college to follow the footsteps of his father. Everything changes when he discovers that his mother is alive and that he has a younger sister. He sets off from Nuwess to look for them in Yash. Meanwhile, his sister, Jiyoti, leaves the community which raised her within Yash, in search of her mother, who abandoned her when she was young.
The siblings first connect through computer-assisted dreaming, which had been developed just before the series of events that destroyed the age of technology. When they meet in Yash, the two young people learn that Eban's father is leading a military force intent on stealing the technological skills that Yash has managed to preserve. This has the potential to destroy the utopian dreams of Yash, a country where guns are prohibited and people live in harmony.

Nicolette Uma Smith loves living on a hillside with the lake in front and trees all around, and is lucky enough to be able to do that both at her home in Ontario and during the time she is able to spend at Yasodhara Ashram in BC. Both places inspire her love of writing and her joy in exploring the great outdoors by bike, boat and boot.
Married with three children, Uma also loves to travel. Even more when it involves her other love, volunteering. The two years she and her husband spent doing that in Guyana South America, was the inspiration for her first book, Hopeful Steps.