Daughters of an Emerald Dusk by Katherine V. Forrest

At last-the return to Maternas!Late in the 22nd century, 4,000 women escaped a tyrannical male-dominated Earth and colonized the planet of Maternas. Katherine V. Forrest's influential 1984 novel, Daughters of a Coral Dawn, told the story of this exodus. Her 2002 novel, Daughters of an Amber Noon, described the destiny of the women left behind on Earth. Now she returns to Maternas at last, where fifty-five years have passed. The women of the Unity who fled to Maternas have brought children into this world, the first in the history of humankind to inherit a legacy of ultimate freedom and possibility. But these children are a breed unto themselves. They have bonded and communicate with each other in a way the older generation cannot fathom, and most disturbing of all, they question many of the Unity's cherished precepts, laying claim to a rival standard of conduct. Into this widening schism walks young Joss. She becomes deeply involved with Emerald, a woman who struggles to locate her lon