About the Book
An omnibus edition.
- Stray
- Lab Rat One
- Caszandra
The complete Touchstone Trilogy, containing "Stray", "Lab Rat One" and "Caszandra". Rescue is only the beginning...
On her last day of high school, Cassandra Devlin walked out of exams and
into a forest. Surrounded by the wrong sort of trees, and animals never
featured in any nature documentary, Cass is only sure of one thing:
alone, she will be lucky to survive.
The sprawl of abandoned
blockish buildings Cass discovers offers her only more puzzles. Where
are the people? What is the intoxicating mist which drifts off the
buildings in the moonlight? And why does she feel like she's being
watched?
Increasingly unnerved, Cass is overjoyed at the arrival of the formidable Setari. Whisked to a world as technologically
advanced as the first was primitive, where nanotech computers are grown
inside people's skulls, and few have any interest in venturing outside
the enormous whitestone cities, Cass finds herself processed as a
'stray', a refugee displaced by the gates torn between worlds.
Struggling with an unfamiliar language and culture, she must adapt to
virtual classrooms, friends who can teleport, and the ingrained attitude that strays are backward and slow.
Can Cass ever find her way
home? And after the people of her new world discover her unexpected
value, will they be willing to let her leave?
