Carmen Webster Buxton

Industrial chemist Dina Bellaire travels all the way to the planet Wakanreo to advance her career.

Yulayan Bellaire has grown up knowing she’s different.

Saronna Maynard never expected to be sold into an off-world household, anymore than Duncan Trushenko expected to return from a business trip to find that his father had bought a companion for him.

Hob is a slave. Jahnsi is a mercenary, a damsel who never needs rescuing.

Kamuhi Hailoaka’s desire to see other worlds led him to Wakanreo, the only world in the galaxy where the dominant species mates for life.

Praxiteles Mercouri, known to his friends as Prax, has spent his whole life on the plains of the planet Celadon.