Product Overview
The sixteenth novel in CherryhsForeignerspace opera series, a groundbreakingtale of first contact and its consequences
Its been a year of upheaval, since Bren Camerons return from spacea year when he and the aiji-dowager, one of his most powerful atevi allies, returned home from their two-year interstellar mission to find the government overthrown and their world in chaos.
Now, at last, things are calming down; the Assassins Guild is functioning again, working out its internal difficulties, and Bren is settling back into his routine: not as Lord of the Heavens; notto his regretas Lord of Najida peninsula, where his leisure estate is located; but as paidhi-aiji, an official in the atevi court.
His current ambition is to keep himself and his bodyguard out of harms way, and to shepherd the aiji-dowagers daring new trade agreement through the appropriate legislative committees. Combined with Tabini-aijis recent appointment of his young son Cajeiri as his official heir, Brens workload is challenging, but at least things on the atevi world seem to be on the right track.
Something is coming, however, quietly, stealthily, just the first ominous twinkle of a new star in the heavens.
