Book description
After spending her youth in the Terran Empire, Margaret Alton returns
to Darkover, the planet of her birth. There she discovers she has the
Alton Gift--forced rapport and compulsion--one of the strongest and most
dangerous of the inherited "Laran" gifts of the telepathic
Comyn--the ruling families of Darkover. And even as she struggles to
control her newfound powers, Margaret finds herself falling in love with
the Regent to the royal Elhalyn Domain, a man she has been forbidden to
marry, for their alliance would irrevocably alter the power balance of
their planet! Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930 - 1999)
Marion Zimmer was born on a farm in Albany, New York, in 1930, and
married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. She received a B. A. from Hardin
Simmons University, Texas, and did post-graduate work at the University
of California, Berkeley, during which time she helped found the Society
for Creative Anachronism. She sold her first story in 1952 and was a
writer of note for over four decades. Bradley is best known for two
signature series: the 'Darkover' science fantasy series and her
Arthurian masterpiece, The Mists of Avalon and its sequels. She also
edited anthologies for 14 years and published Marion Zimmer Bradley's
Fantasy Magazine, which ran for 50 quarterly issues between 1988 and the
end of 2000. Marion Zimmer Bradley died in Berkeley, California, on
September 25, 1999, four days after suffering a major heart attack.
Adrienne Martine-Barnes is an American author who has collaborated with
Marion Zimmer Bradley on three Darkover books.
