WINNER of the 2013 Prism Award for Futuristic Romance from the Romance Writers of America's
Fantasy, Futuristic & Paranormal Chapter!
A story that will
appeal to fans of Marion Zimmer Bradley and Zenna Henderson, The Marann
recounts one woman’s journey through loneliness, shattering revelations, and attempted assassination on a world where everyone can read her
emotions.
Marianne Woolsey is a high school Spanish teacher in
rural Iowa, when Earth Central Command decides her linguistic talents
would be better exercised if she spent 26 years teaching the daughter
and heir of an alien ruler on a planet 24 light years from Earth. Now
she’s alone on a planet of aliens so humanlike that she has to keep
telling herself her student’s noble father is just her boss.
Handsome – and deadly – the Sural has ruled his province and led his planet far
longer than he can admit to his daughter’s human tutor. He hides much
more from the space-faring races of the Trade Alliance than he is
willing to reveal. What he doesn’t want Central Command to know, he has
to conceal from Marianne, but Marianne is concealing her own secrets
from him – and as an empath, he knows it.
This first novel in the Tales of Tolari Space series explores what could happen when you put an unsuspecting human on a planet full of empaths.
