Book description
Alya has an almost magical talent. Her hunches are never wrong. The
scientists of planet 4-I want to use her talent and promise her a spot
on the next offworld colonization team in return for her assessment of
the potential of the latest worlds they've discovered. But Alya meets
Cedric, the grandson of the brilliant and tyrannical director of 4-I and
she begins to doubt her own intuition. Cedric has dreamed of becoming a
scout and exploring new worlds and when he meets Alya he is more
determined than ever to leave 4-I, with her. His grandmother needs him
on 4-I, though, because she has schemes afoot to protect her planet and
to cover up a murder and she does not intend to let him go. However, she
has underestimated her grandson--and the young woman whose intuition is
so strong and whose destiny is linked to Cedric's. Dave Duncan, born
in Scotland in 1933, is a Canadian citizen. He received his diploma from
Dundee High School and got his college education at the University of
Saint Andrews. He moved to Canada in 1955, where he still lives with his
wife. He has three grown children and four grandchildren. He spent
thirty years as a petroleum geologist. He has had dozens of fantasy and
science fiction novels published, among them A ROSE-RED CITY, MAGIC
CASEMENT and THE REAVER ROAD, as well as a highly praised historical
novel, DAUGHTER OF TROY, published, for commercial reasons, under the
pseudonym Sarah B. Franklin. He also published the "Longdirk"
series of novels, DEMON SWORD, DEMON KNIGHT and DEMON RIDER, under the
name Ken Hood. His website is DaveDuncan. com. In the Fall of 2007,
Duncan's 2006 novel, CHILDREN OF CHAOS, published by Tor Books, was
nominated for both the Prix Aurora Award and the Endeavour Award.
