The Spiritic (Paperback)

If they can't destroy Esadov - they'll have to outthink it! A biologist and a diplomat are all that stand in the way of a sentient and lethal bacterial entity's invasion of the known worlds. This is the journey of Dr. Romayne Quanadeen, half-Numorkian (human emigres from mid-21st century Earth) and half-Sed (forest folk of Numork, in the Cronal Tura star system). Though an atheist, Rom was born with a stigma on her hip, a spiritic caused by a tribal enemy's spear wound that, on Esadov's orders, killed her spirit-guide Suvana and unborn child three generations earlier. With Esadov set to reach fission and multiply, Suvana hauls star marathon runner Rom out of her university life of research and athletics and thrusts her into a race to save millions of lives. To help her, the fates recruit Kru Sigor, retired Numorkian military identity turned reclusive artist and, on separate paths, Rom and Kru head for a showdown with their blood enemy.