Book description
The Shongili twins, Ronan and Murel, accompany their friend Marmie on
her luxury space craft Piaf to rescue their friend Ke-ola's
family from an uninhabitable planet. They arrive to find the planet in
the midst of a terrible meteor storm and when they go down to the
surface find that the survivors have taken refuge under ground. Ronan
and Murel change into seal form and find the survivors and their totem
animals or aumakua, the giant turtles, or Honu, and the sharks.
Back on Petaybee the twins, in their seal form, escort the Honus to
their new home in the middle of the ocean. They also want to warn the
otters and seals about the sharks. It is a long journey and Murel
falls asleep and gets separated from the rest. She is surrounded by a
pod of Orcas who, thinking she is a normal seal, try to eat her.
Before they can do so she is caught up in a whirlpool caused by the
volcanic activity in the area, as is Ronan, who had swum back to try
to rescue her.
They are rescued from the whirlpool by the mysterious deep sea
otters and taken into their shielded city on the ocean floor. While
their leader, Kushtaka, is talking to them her son Jeel sees the
sharks and goes to inspect them, Murel races after him but is too late
and Jeel is killed.
Meanwhile Marmie and her crew are arrested on trumped up charges of
kidnapping Ke-ola's family and taken to Gwinnett Incarceration Colony,
along with most of the survivors they rescued.
When Murel and Ronan return to their family and discover that Marmie
has been arrested and the Piaf impounded they realize they need
to get off the planet and go to her rescue. While staying with
Kushtaka they were told that the deep sea otters were not just otters
but beings from outer space who had hidden in the depths of Petaybee's
oceans for years. Now that they have been discovered they plan to
leave, the twins persuade Kushtaka to take them with her and to help
them rescue Marmie.
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.
