365 Days of Books

Heart of Gold is a love story set on a different planet. There are romances in other of Shinn's books but they are an enhancing part of the story, and stronger relationships. Heart of Gold is more harlequin feeling.

Power and position on this world are determined by colour. There are three distinct races: indigo, gulden, and albino and each is structured differently (at least I think so, the albino structure is not well explained) with the indigoes as a matriarchy with men relegated to mostly non-educated roles, the guldens as male dominated rebels who keep their women secluded and powerless. Young gulden males are involved in terrorist actions against the indigo and tensions are high. Kit is an indigo woman from a high powerful family but she was raised by her father among the gulden and she feel attached to them and is the lover of a high ranking gulden man. Nolan, an indigo male who works in a biolab, stumbles onto a plot to decimate the guldens and he captures Kit to use as a hostage and key to the guldens so that he can warn them about the plot. Blah, blah, blah, they fall in love.