Lighting panels, hidden behind the rare, hand-carved wood trim along the ceiling, cast a subdued golden glow down walls covered with a richly textured fabric brought at great cost from a planet half the galaxy away.Ĭalee stood in the open doorway, letting her eyes wander over the familiar, precious space that was hers and hers alone.
It was small, slightly longer than it was wide, scarcely large enough to accommodate the massive couch draped with heavy silken throws that occupied the side farthest from the door. At her hesitant touch, the door slid silently open, revealing the chamber beyond. For an instant, she wondered if she had the courage to open the door. She raised her hand to the panel that would open the door in front of her. This assignment was a mistake, but none of her protests had rectified the error. With the exception of quotes used in reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced, used in whole or in part, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, existing now or in the future, without permission of the author.įOR THE FIRST TIME since she’d become a dreamer, Calee hesitated at the entrance to her chamber, her body tense, her stomach tight with anxiety. Any resemblance to actual events, places, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.Īll rights reserved. Names, places, characters, and incidents are either creations of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously.
Now Calee faces her greatest challenge: guiding a pilot - a male pilot - on a mission so urgent that mankind’s very survival hangs in the balance. Read moreĬalee is a Dreamer, a psychic capable of guiding star ships through the amorphous darkness of within by following the songs of the stars that only Dreamers could hear. Bram is prepared to risk his life if he has to, but he isn't prepared for the assault on his heart by a woman half a galaxy away. Even though scout ships are built for speed, not firepower, Bram is assigned the task of locating the planet and defending it against any Gromin incursion, no matter what the cost. The risk that the Gromin have intercepted the probe's message is too great to ignore, and Bram's is the only ship anywhere close. But there's a difference between dangerous missions and suicidal ones, and his latest assignment definitely qualifies as suicidal-an ancient probe has reported the discovery of a planet at the very edge of the galaxy, a planet rich in a rare mineral used by humanity's mortal enemies, the vicious, alien Gromin, to create an airborne poison capable of wiping out life on every human-inhabited planet known. Scout ship pilot Bram Mason has found solace in the dangerous, lonely work of exploring newly discovered planets. But even Dreamworld's high walls cannot protect her when she is assigned to guide a pilot-a male pilot-on a mission so urgent that mankind's very survival hangs in the balance. The female pilots she guides, because Calee, her childhood still too raw a memory, wants nothing to do with men, ever. Now Calee lives a safe, cosseted existence within the walls of Dreamworld, alone in a room of her own choosing, drifting on the distant star songs that are more real to her than any of the human pilots she guides.
Abandoned as a child to what should have been a short, miserable life on the streets of Dantares, Calee was rescued when it was discovered that she was one of the precious, gifted few - a Dreamer, a psychic capable of guiding star ships through the amorphous darkness of within by following the songs of the stars that only Dreamers can hear.
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