Dr. Cherijo Grey Veil leaves Earth and accepts a position as a physician at Kevarzanga-2's FreeClinic. Her surgical skills are desperately needed on a hostile frontier world with over 200 sentient species—and her understanding of alien physiology is nothing short of miraculous. But the truth behind her expertise is a secret which, if discovered, could have disastrous consequences between human and alien relations...

Dr. Cherijo is living the perfect life—if you think that finding out you're a clone, then being declared "non-sentient" by your father/creator is your idea of perfect.Things could be worse. But when the Human League comes after her, with bounty hunters of every race trying to bring her in, Cherijo figures it can't get any worse... Until someone begins stalking her dreams. Praise for StarDoc: "AI? just loved it. Don't miss this one." —Catherine Coulter"Continuously surprising... deviously written...and splendidly full of new characters." —Anne McCaffrey

After turning Colonel Shropana over to the brutal Hsktskt slave traders, Dr. Cherijo Torin, a genetically enhanced human, finds herself betrayed and a prisoner of the same slavers, where she must draw on all her skills and her training to save herself and her fellow slaves. Original.

Cherijo Grey Veil and her husband, Duncan, search for a place where she'll be safe from the demented man who created her. But Joseph Grey Veil never gives up. Now the newlyweds are living underground with the help of a renegade band of alien-human half-breeds. Cherijo soon finds that she can't just run away from her past—she must destroy it.

Aboard the star vessel Sunlace, Dr. Cherijo Torin and her husband have found refuge from the Hsktskt, the League, and her half-mad creator. Now they intend to find Cherijo's foster mother—and the truth behind the subliminal messages she left in Cherijo's brain. But first they have some promises to keep—promises that put them in the middle of an interstellar war. Everything Cherijo ever fought for is put on the line—including her solemn oath to protect life. Beginning in Stardoc—a novel hailed as one of the best science fiction books of the year by Science Fiction Chronicle—S. L. Viehl's smart, savvy surgeon, Cherijo Torin, has ventured across the universe in and out of danger and love, driven by two great forces—her sworn duty to heal the sick and her constant fear of the demented man who created her.

Stardoc novella

In this new Stardoc novel, Dr. Cherijo Torin, living on the ice-covered world of Akkabarr for the last two years with no memory of her past, is caught in the middle of a war between the slaves and their masters, while her husband desperately searches for her. Original.

Dr. Cherijo Torin is not herself. With no memory of her past-or even of the man she loved-she sees herself as a different person and has no desire to remember who she once was. But Cherijo must remember if she's to develop a cure for the Hsktskt plague before their race becomes extinct.

Dr. Cherijo Torin faces a different kind of epidemic: a mysterious black crystal spreading like cancer throughout the galaxy. The hunt for information leads Cherijo to the planet Trellus, whose inhabitants exhibit excessive paranoia and anger, taking out their frustrations in the Omega Dome in simulated combat against battle drones. But someone is killing victims outside the arena, and Cherijo believes the black crystal infection is responsible for this horror.

NINTH IN THE "CONTINUOUSLY SURPRISING AND DEVIOUSLY WRITEN" SERIES Genetically engineered interstellar surgeon Dr. Cherijo Torin, her husband Duncan Reever, and a handpicked crew journey to the planet oKia to locate a strange black mineral that is the source of an intergalactic epidemic. When one of the crew members becomes infected, his body slowly begins to crystallize. While Cherijo races to save the crew member, mercenaries arrive in the oKia system, wanting Cherijo's genes-and her near immortality. It will take all of her abilities to elude the mercenaries and discover the black crystal's secrets before it's too late.