Freedom's Landing: Anne McCaffrey

Book I of Catteni. When the Catteni ships descended on Earth it was the most terrifying experience humankind had ever known. Kris Bjornsen, along with thousands of others, was herded by forcewhips into the holds of giant spaceships to be transported to the slave compounds of an alien planet. After a partially successful escape attempt, Kris was once more shipped across space - to an apparently untamed and empty planet. The Catteni just dumped an assorted load of humans and aliens on the strange world and left them to see what would happen. The refugees began to organise themselves for survival. The planet was eerie - and not quite abandoned. Someone - or something - had built huge storage barns. The planet was being used as a huge larder, for an entity they could not comprehend. As Kris and her patrol set out to explore the enigmatic world, she had yet another problem - Zainal, the high-ranking patrician Catteni who had been abandoned with the rest of them. He was strong, brilliant and kind. Kris is puzzled by his presence, his personality - and the tenuous tie she feels towards this man - who was not a man but one of the hated Catteni. Cover art by Romas Kukalis. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/freedoms-choice-anne-mccaffrey/