The blurb for my unfinished novel "The Hands of the Dying": Cassia Malorin wants to become jendia—one of the Rilean female genders—like her long dead hero Lucia of Semeris, but to satisfy her powerful father’s secret alliance she must become a man. Pursued by a bounty hunter with a hidden past, and with the help of a rebel caught between three cultures, Cassia will uncover a conspiracy that spans the galaxy and ten thousand years. Never meet your heroes.