Series: Book 2 in the Galactic Milieu series
Rating: Not rated
Tags: Fiction, Science Fiction
Summary
The 21st century was drawing to a close, and metapsychic
humankind was poised at last to achieve Unity -- to be admitted
into the group mind of the already unified alien races of the
Galactic Milieu. But a growing corps of rebels was plotting to
keep the people of Earth forever separate in the name of human
individuality. And the rebels had a secret supporter: Fury, the
insane metapsychic creatrue that would stop at nothing to claim
humanity for itself. Fury's greatest enemy was the mutant
genius Jack the Bodiless, whose power it craved. But Jack would
never be a tool for Fury . . .
And so it turned to Dorothea Macdonald, a young woman who
had spent a lifetime hiding her towering mindpowers from the
best mind readers of the Milieu. But she could not hide them
from Fury -- or from Jack. Time and again she rejected their
advances, unwilling to be drawn into the maelstrom of galactic
politics or megalomaniacal dreams. And in the end, no one --
not Jack, not Fury, not even the...