β Scribed by Anne McCaffrey
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A DESTRUCTIVE SPECIES
The Hive acts as a single entity, relentlessly swarming the galaxy, endlessly propagating on every habitable world they encounterβdestroying native populations in the process. They do not recognize any sentience but their own. They do not acknowledge any attempt to communicate with them. They do not understand they leave countless numbers of dead in their wake.
A FAMILY LEGACY
The Prime Talents of the Raven-Lyon clanβtelepaths, teleporters, and telekineticsβhave protected the Alliance from the Hive breeding contagion for years. Now a fleet orbits the alien homeworld to prevent them from leaving, and a Hive queen and her eggs are in captivity and quarantined. And unless the Raven-Lyons break the language barrier between Human and Hive, the Alliance may have no choice but to eliminate their entire race...
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**A DESTRUCTIVE SPECIES** The Hive acts as a single entity, relentlessly swarming the galaxy, endlessly propagating on every habitable world they encounterdestroying native populations in the process. They do not recognize any sentience but their own. They do not acknowledge any attempt to communic
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Rowan, her daughter and son-in-law, Damia and Afra, and their children must use their extraordinary telepathic abilities to battle the alien Hivers in outer space.
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