Book description
It was a world of ice and snow - a planet that just supported life
and that had been terraformed from frozen uninhabitable rock. The
people of Petaybee were hardy, self-reliant, friendly - and also very secretive.
Major Yana Maddock, medically discharged from the service, was
shipped to Petaybee in the hope that her burnt-out lungs might just
recover in the icy air. And at the last moment, she was given a
special commission. Unauthorized life-forms had been seen on the
planet and, more seriously, geologic survey teams had vanished into
nowhere, the odd survivor being discovered abandoned and insane. It
was Yana's task to infiltrate Petaybee society and find out who - or
what - was causing the eerie events on the planet.
She discovered a primitive ice-bound community of extraordinary
people - people who possessed some mysterious quality of surviving -
and people who Yana discovered she both liked and revered as she found
herself becoming one of them.
Anne McCaffrey, the Hugo award winning author of the bestselling
Dragonriders of Pern novels, is one of science fiction's most popular
authors. She lives in a house of her own design, Dragonhold-Underhill,
in County Wicklow, Ireland. Visit the author's website at www.
annemccaffrey. net
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, winner of the Nebula Award for her novel
The Healer's War, is the author of numerous fantasy novels. She has
co-authored eight other novels with Anne McCaffrey. She lives on the
Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.
