Alliance-Union Books

Raen travels to the different worlds within the constellation Hydrus in order to hunt down and destroy the powerful aliens that massacred her family, quarantined human colonists who created a unique culture in the confines of the Serpent's Reach

"Set in the same future as the Hugo-winning Downbelow Station, but fully self-contained, this is a story on the classic theme of human understanding of the alien. . . . Once again, Cherryh proves herself a consistently thoughtful and entertaining writer."--Publishers Weekly. Reissue.