Book II of The Tower And The Hive. Of all the Rowan’s children, Damia was the most brilliant, the most difficult, the loneliest and the one who inherited the greatest Talent. It was obvious she would be a Prime with all the honours and  burdens of that elite class. Her one friend was Afra – older, wiser, Talented in his own way but belonging almost exclusively to the Rowan and the workings of Callisto Station. As Damia grew her Talent became almost too strong to control and the solution was separation – from her parents, from Callisto and from her beloved Afra. Sent to distant Deneb, to her strange and gifted grandmother, Damia began the necessary training to turn her into a Prime of extraordinary gifts – one ho could contact the minds of approaching aliens through space, some of whom threatened to destroy the worlds of the Nine Star League. Cover art by Romas Kukalis.