The exciting sequel to Distant Ties, Broken Ties follows the secession of the Yazawa Space Colony from the United States. Kyung Yazawa, now the President of the new nation, has to choose between the daunting task of converting his colony into a functional country, or overlook the attempted military attack and negotiate to rejoin the union and become a state. At the same time, Diane Hanning's estranged sister is kidnapped. To save her, Diane must betray her new friends, Poc Tec, Samot and the hatching baby Sentients. She must steal the secrets of the alien artificial gravity. Will Diane destroy the financial future of her alien friends? Or, will she let her sister die?