World Spirits (Khyren Universe)

the long version

When Aurial il Tarz, of the powerful and wealthy il Tarz Trading Family, receives her first big assignment she ends up on an Outback world where religion is the water of life ... food can be a deadly poison... god is a complex entity inspiring a passionate faith ... and nothing is quite what it seems. In this confusing environmental, Aurial goes under cover to accomplish an impossible task with just one angry noblewoman to help her. Meanwhile, Rolfe, her control on the mission and her half-brother, tracks an abducted terrorist to slave labor shipment and a raw new planet known as Big Green - undeveloped, uncivilized, and hostile. trapped, working in suffocating heat, the laborers must ravage the Dumaass, a jungle that knows that whey are doing... and fights back. It's Rolfe's job to get them out before the violated world wreaks vengeance.