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"Believable characters makes this sci-fi tale even more enjoyable."
Reviewed by Lory Martin
Posted April 14, 2004

Cynara D'Accorso is the human captain of the Pegasus, alliance ship of the Concordat, a government in the deep space of the future. Ronan is also human, but has lived his life with the shaauri, longtime enemies of humans. As Ronan is escaping from the shaauri, he's picked up by Read more...

"wonderful tale of a future in space"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted May 1, 2004

Two decades ago, war between humanity and the Shaauri broke out. Most of the Kinsmen, humans with telepathic abilities, supported the Shaauri against their own kind. Abductions were not uncommon and a young Ronan velKalevi was taken as a lad by the Shaauri during the early days of Read more...

"...delightful story line hooks readers of both genres..."
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted September 25, 2005

Two decades ago, war between humanity and the Shaauri broke out. Most of the Kinsmen, humans with telepathic abilities, supported the Shaauri against their own kind. Abductions were not uncommon and a young Ronan velKalevi was taken as a lad by the Shaauri during the early days of Read more...

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In her popular novella in the New York Times best- selling Out of This World anthology, Susan Krinard created a futuristic world of humans, telepaths, and an alien race called the shaauri. Now, she returns to that future galaxy with a captivating tale about two telepaths who have nothing in common...except the love they share for one another.

Summary

Ronan VelKalevi was a man torn between two worlds. Born into the human race, he was kidnapped at the age of six by shaauri. More than twenty years later, he has found himself on the run from the aliens who raised him—and being saved by a ship of humans...

Captain Cynara D'Accorso, the commander of the Pegasus, has no reservation about rescuing the telepathic Kinsman from his damaged ship. But she isn't expecting the dangerous emotions this troubled man awakens in her—or that he isn't the innocent fugitive he claims to be.

Now, as Ronan and Cynara's hearts fall prey to passion, they must discover the paths to which they each were born before their destines destroy them both...