The Power Link Services Command—military-scientific coalition of the Five Peoples—is infiltrated by a man bent of vengeance...so twisted by hate and cruelty that he would jeopardized a world to turn his merciless fury against the two people he hates most... The Warrior Maele Sorenlon, first woman to battle her way to Senior Officer rank, embarks on a routine ecological mission to the moon circling the planet Erda. But this benevolent world has suddenly turned hostile, sabotaged with murderous secrets... The Alien SanDreleccur, Link Services Under Officer, recruited from a planet viewed with fear and suspicion. A steely, silent half human, he can match Maele's physical prowess with the awesome powers of his mind...until his destiny—and hers—becomes a test of survival...and a journey into the forbidden...