It is through first contact with an alien species that humanity learns of the Dream. It is a plane of mental existence where people are able to communicate with one another by their thoughts alone—over distances of thousands of light-years. To ensure that future generations will have this ability, human genetic engineering produces newborns capable of finding and navigating the Dream. They became known as the Silent. Rust is just one planet among many in the Empire of Human Unity. It’s nothing special, nothing unusual . . . except for the fact that it is home to an unknown boy who may be the most powerful Silent ever born—a Silent with the ability to possess the bodies of others against their will. This mysterious child may be causing tremors within the Dream itself. For now, only the Children of Irfan know about him. A monastic-like order of the Silent, the Children protect their members even as they barter their services with the governments and corporations that control known space. But power like that cannot be hidden, and soon every Silent in the universe will know about the boy—and every government will be willing to go to war to control him. And if the Children of Irfan cannot find him first, the Dream itself may be shattered ...

Rescued from slavery by the Children of Irfan, Kendi Weaver, a Silent with an innate gift for dream communication, journeys with his rescuers to their planet, Bellerophon, only to find a world tormented by a vicious serial killer who is stalking Silents like Kendi in their telepathic dreams. Original.

While searching for their loved ones after the destruction of "The Dream," a telepathic communications net, Father Kendi Weaver and the crew of the Poltergeist are taken hostage by a strange group whose hidden agenda places all of their lives in great danger. Original.

When Bellerophon, a beautiful forest planet rife with psychics known as the Silent, comes under attack by its political enemies, Kendi Weaver, along with a small group of the Silent, must save the Dream from being destroyed. Original.