Flowerdust

In a story set in a future Southeast Asia, a powerful new drug is causing trouble for refugee camps, and charismatic political rebel leader Derveet uncovers a secret plot when he tries to stop it Flowerdust is a companion novel to Divine Endurance, set in the same strange and distant future in Southeast Asia, where a matriarchy is both supported and threatened by the mysterious technology of foreigners in great offshore ships. Its heroine is Derveet, a charismatic political rebel leader. A powerful drug, Flowerdust, is causing trouble in the refugee camps, threatening to precipitate revolution too soon. Derveet sets out to stop the spread of the drug and in the process uncovers a secret plot of the mysterious Rulers. And behind the scenes, Divine Endurance and Chosen Among the Beautiful lurk in the shadows. In a futuristic southeast Asian country, the rulers have started distributing to their people an addictive drug, the flowerdust of the title. With great danger to himself, a local revolutionary investigates what is behind this drug and discovers a genocide plot