The Ghattens' Gambit #1: Sunderlies Seeking
Gayle Greeno
DAW Books, 1998
ISBN:0-88677-805-0 (paperback)
THE SUNDERLIES -- home to convicts, rebels, and the unwanted refuse of society--or so it has traditionally
been. Even now it is a land where, for the law-abiding population, the price of safety is eternal vigilance.
For Doyce'ss and Jenret's sixteen-year-old twins, Jenneth and her brother Diccon, the very name is a summons to exotic adventure. So when Jenret porposes taking them--and any friends who wish to make the journey
along on a business trip to the Sunderlies, the twins can hardly contain their excitement.
The only thing more thrilling is the newfound bond Jenneth made with the ghatten Pw'eek and Diccon with her sister ghatten Kwee.
Yet almost from the start the journey seems overshadowed
with bad luck--or evil intent. Though Doyce, newly retired from the position of Seeker
General, has come along in the hopes of restrengthening her emotional ties with her husband Jenret,
they seem to be caught in a kind of private war neither can control.
And before the party even sets sail, "accidents" begin to occur. First Doyce
is thrown by her mount. Next a campfire explosion menaces Jenneth, Diccon, and the other children.
Yet despite these ill omens, they are deteeeermined not to turn back.
But the real disaster strikes at sea, when a storm sweeps Jenneth and Pw'eek overboard. Desperate
to find his lost twin, Diccon has no way of knowing that the worst for all of them still lies ahead --
in the Sunderlies, where a once-vanquished adn long-vanished enemy waits--a fanatic determined to eradicate Resonants and Seekers alike....
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