Acorna, the "unicorn girl" has made peace with her Linyaari past, and aboard the interplanetary salvage vessel Condor she is finally free. But dread overtakes her when a distress signal summons Acorna and her companions to a nearby planet. For among the myraid wonders of this world of sentient plant[...]

In "Catalyst, " award-winning authors Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough introduced readers to the beguiling Barque Cats: spacefaring felines who serve aboard starships as full-fledged members of the crew. Highly evolved, the cats share an almost telepathic bond with their minders, or Cat [...]

Having rescued her people from their dangerous enemies and thwarted an intergalactic conspiracy, Acorna is disturbed by sinister changes that are demonstrated by her beloved lifemate, Aari, a situation that is complicated by the workings of a vicious criminal and the deadly Khleevi. Reprint.[...]