Matter

In a mysterious, powerful world, a crime within a war means almost certain death for one family. One man desperately searches for the only person who can clear his name; while his brother must forever live in fear of retribution. And their sister, Djan Seriy Anaplian, without even knowing the truth, must return to this world that she thought she'd left behind. Anaplian has changed completely to become an agent of the Culture's Special Circumstances section, charged with high-level interference in civilizations throughout the greater galaxy. Concealing her new identity and her special abilities, Anaplian returns to the world where nothing is what it seems, and she knows nothing will ever be the same.