Andrea Ito has the right stuff. She's an ace pilot, the Top Gun of the toughest space academy in the solar system. Then mysterious Jason Stiletto blasts into her life from Eridani, a distant star system. He's the best cadet she's ever seen. But he has a terrible secret. Jason doesn't play by the rules. He only has one goal - revenge on the man who tried to kill him. And he only has one friend - the gentle alien Sssrei. That is, until he meets Andrea. But can he trust her with the truth? And how can he stop his enemy's deadly plan?

Rusty McPhee discovers the body of an unknown man, but when he tries to report his discovery the space colony's computers tell him all the colonists are alive and accounted for

Lost on a world they did not understand... Somehow Clea always knew she was different. The strange star-shaped marking on her palm and her secret ability to communicate simply by thinking, or mind-speech, distinguished her from other girls. But the arrival of a boy just like her changed everything for Clea. How special is she, if this runaway from nowhere has the exact same traits? Clea and the boy are more special than she could possibly imagine. Because they aren't even of this world... they are skyborn.