Book description
The Talents were the elite of the Nine Star League. Their gifts were
many and varied, ranging from the gently telepathic, to the rare and
extremely valued Primes. On the Primes rested the entire economic wealth
and communications systems of the civilised worlds. But Primes were
scarce - only very rarely was a new one born. And now, on the planet
Altair, in a small mining colony on the western mountain range, a new
Prime existed, a three-year-old girl - trapped in a giant mud slide that
had wiped out the rest of the Rowan mining community. Every Altarian who
was even mildly talented could 'hear' the child crying for help, but no
one knew where she was buried. Every resource on the planet was centred
into finding 'The Rowan' - the new Prime, the first ever to be born on
Altair, an exceptionally unique Prime, more talented, more powerful,
more agoraphobic, more lonely, than any other Prime yet known in the
Nine Star league. 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
