She sketches, occasionally, cooks fairly well, and hates house work she loves the outdoors, animals wild and tame, is a hobbyist geologist, adores dinosaurs, and has academic specialties in Roman constitutional law and bronze age Greek ethnography. She began with the modest ambition to learn to skate backwards and now is working on jumps. Her hobbies include travel, photography, reef culture, Mariners baseball, and, a late passion, figure skating: she intends to compete in the adult USFSA track. She is the author of more than forty novels.

Cherryh has won four Hugos and is one of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed authors in the science fiction and fantasy field. It's Bren's responsibility to entertain the guests, keep the security problem secret.and let a lonely eight-year-old prince reestablish his controversial relationship with the only other children he's ever met.inside the best security they can manage.Ĭurrently resident in Spokane, Washington, C.J.

But having the targets separated and contained is an advantage. They themselves are very likely targets of whatever's going on, no question of it. Tabini's consort's own father has been barred from court, and may be involved in a new conspiracy against him.įor safety reasons, Tabini wants Bren and Ilisidi to take charge of Cajeiri, and protect him and his young guests. The boy has been promised he can have the young human children he knew from his voyage sent down from the space station for a two week stay.īut there's far a darker business going on in the background-a major split compromising the Assassins' Guild, which furnishes security and law enforcement to the whole continent.

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