A Daring Heroine—An Alien Mystic—A Thrilling Adventure

Hickory was born with a mutant empathy gene soon after World War Three. She became an Olympic athlete at fifteen and three years later was recruited to the prestigious Alien Corps.

Her first mission ended in disaster and she was sacked.

The feisty commander is desperate for another opportunity, so when the father she hasn’t seen for sixteen years asks her to go on a vital mission to the edge of the galaxy, she jumps at the chance.

Hickory is sent to the strategically important world, Prosperine, to investigate the volatile political climate and check out a disruptive mystic called the Teacher.

When she arrives, Hickory becomes involved in a plot by revolutionaries that will test every ounce of her emotional and physical resilience.

Hickory must banish the pain from her past and embrace the empathic gift she was born with. Only then can she hope to discover what the Teacher is up to and stop the revolutionary threat.

Questions you will ask when you read this book:

• Will the Human agenda destroy the aliens’ way of life?
• Will the various factions in the alien world crumble and collapse into civil war under the threat?
• Will Hickory come to terms with her conflicted loyalties and fractured relationships?
• Who is this mysterious ‘messiah’ who inspires and divides the aliens?