Space pilot Russ Atkins hungers for a fresh start. His gift of sensing telepathic interference has only yielded misery, landing him in military prison for two years. A dead-end job flying shuttles for a freighter is his only option as an ex-con.

His life is about to get worse. An unexpected encounter jolts him out of his dreary existence. But restoring a telepathic adolescent to her clan in defiance of the law is not the career change he had in mind.

The Union of Planets, governed from twenty-third century Earth, nurtures a deep-seated loathing toward its former thought-shifting overlords, the Ilanians. Aside from an enslaved group of Ilanians, many of whom are used as special agents to hunt their own kind, all telepaths and humans who help them face execution.

With a death penalty hanging over his head, Russ plunges into a criminal underworld to evade capture. But a telepathic Union agent from his past has plans that target both him and his young friend’s clan. Russ must search his heart to overcome his own prejudices, while his memories hold the key to defeating his thought-shifting foe.

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