A Thousand Words For Stranger
Julie E. Czerneda
Daw Books, 1997
ISBN:0-8867-7769-0 (paperback)
Ambushed by unknown assailants, cut off from her escort, and on the run with no memory of who she was, what she was doing on the world
known as Auod, or why she was driven by a compulsion to find a specific
ship and head for an unknown destination, she was was forced to accept the help
of a space trader named Morgan. Captain Morgan gave her the name of Sira and a berth on his spaceship,
but there was somthing about him she could not quite trust, something that he was hiding from her.
Yet, sought by the Enforcers of the interstellar
Trade Pact, by representatives of the Clan of which Sira herself was a member
and by a mysterious pursuer determined to use Sira for his own ends, he had
no choice but to ally herself with Morgan--even though
each might well prove the other's doom....
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