He has no clue that the woman he has hired to be his administrative assistant is nearly as powerful as he is. He thinks Claire’s mind is restful because it’s so quiet. His firm specializes in security, and he is a powerful psycher. Her shielding is so perfect, she appears mind-blind, making her the perfect candidate for a job with Ventura Escana. So she hides her abilities, making herself seem like any other refugee, no matter what painful tests are administered to smoke out psychers like her.Īs an ordinary refugee, she is sent to Rada, the home planet of the first book, Silent Blade. The conquerors will be certain that she is too dangerous to live. The talent that has been her biggest asset suddenly paints a target on her back. She fights because that’s all there is to life in her world.

Claire is extremely powerful, able to infiltrate and kill on the bionet. Claire is drafted at age 14, forced to leave her terminally ill mother behind so that she can put her “psycher” talents to use for Melko. Each faction claims the planet Uley, and neither will give up.Įveryone contributes to the war effort. Brodwyn has been at war with Melko for all of Claire’s life. Resources are scarce, and interplanetary conflict is a fact of life. This is not a peaceful future that we see.

It’s also twice as long, which gives the reader not just more world building, but also more character development. Silver Sharkis set in the same universe as Silent Blade, but tells a much different love story and shows us a much different side of this particular future. She thought she had left war and death behind, but now she must fight for her new life and this battle might just cost her everything… She is deported to a new planet, a vivid beautiful place, where she meets Venturo Escana, a powerful psycher, whose presence overwhelms both her mind and her body. But when the war abruptly ends, Claire must hide her psycher’s ability to survive. She uses no weapons, only her mind.īorn on a planet locked in a long war, Claire is a psycher, a woman with the ability to attack minds and infiltrate a biological computer network where psychers battle to the death.

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