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Stronghold Rising
Lisanne Norman
DAW Books, June 2000
ISBN: 0-8867-7898-0 (paperback)
The catlike aliens return--in the sixth exciting novel in Lisanne Norman's best-selling Sholan Alliance
series....
Delicate negotiations for an alliance are underway with the Primes, a previously unknown faction of
the hated Valytegan race. But the Sholans and Humans must avert a full-fledged rebellion--begun in
a laboratory engaged in illegal breeding experiments...
THE PRIMERS are the upper class of the original Valtegan home world, pacifistic intellectuals who are unable to defend themselves from either their own warrior class-the Valtegans who have been making war on the entire galaxy-or any other species. To protect themselves the Primes have made secret alliances with other races while concealing their own true identities and the location of their homeworld.
Now, after an ill-advised kidnapping of the vessel carrying Kusac, Carrie and Kaid, the Primes have been forced to reveal themselves to the members of the Sholan Alliances. But in the midst of delicate diplomatic negotiations to create a new pact between the Sholan Alliance and the Primes ,power struggles on both Shola and the Prime world threaten to jeopardize the treaty.
Still recovering from being tortured by a rogue Prime group, Kussac is about to set out on a secret mission of his own, a mission which could see him branded as a traitor to his own kind. And what he discovers could well lead to the over throw of the Prime leadership and to the destruction of the delicate balance that is the only thing staving off interstellar war…
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