Soft science fiction. When a devastating epidemic strikes a colony of Earthlings on a distant planet, Lily Reynolds, age eleven, finds herself the oldest one of twelve survivors. She and the other children live with the hope that a promised starship will come to rescue them. Then tragedy strikes again as the youngest child disappears. Those who remain, grow up completely cut off from other human beings. Only the mystical Mansions of Karma, which appear in the sky periodically, remind the young … [Read more...] about Mansions of Karma by Ruth White @kidlitwriter