Special 20th Anniversary Edition, featuring a new introduction by MercedesLackey!
Successful SF writer Anne McCaffrey and hot fantasy author Mercedes Lackeycollaborate on this heartwarming tale of a little girl's search for a long-deadrace of starfarers — set in the same universe as McCaffrey's bestsellersThe Ship Who Sang and PartnerShip. When seven-year-old Tia fallsmysteriously ill while on an archaeological dig with her parents, she attributesit to the EsKays, a race whose artifacts are scattered throughout the galaxy,but whose fate remains an enigma.