Kathryn was a human empath whose world and life had been destroyed when, as a very young child, she’d watched helplessly as the alien S’sinn slaughtered her parents before her very eyes. Only the Translators, an elite guild of empaths, had been able to free her from the trauma and give her a new life.
Jarrikk was a young S’sinn, an unproven warrior who’d seen his flight mates slaughtered by the humans who’d sought to colonize his world. Crippled so that he could never fly again, he would have chosen death, but he wasn’t allowed the choice. Instead he, too, was trained to be a Translator. And as humans and S’sinn found themselves poised on the brink of a war that could not only destroy their own species but could disrupt the delicate balance of the multiracial Commonwealth, these two Translators–who had every reason to hate one another–had to work together to find a common ground and avert catastrophe. But whether their Translators’ oath and training could overcome the enemies leagued against them was very much in doubt…
Published by DAW Books