Bren Cameron, a human living in exile on the island of Mospheira, seeks a new way to develop a deeper understanding between the human community and the society of atevi--two dangerous, intelligent, and possibly incompatible species.

The wizard Mauryl, kingmaker for a thousand years of Men, casts a Shaping spell in the form of a young man, Tristen, who is fated to sow distrust between a prince and his father. Mauryl wishes to right the wrongs of a long forgotten wizard war, and to call new wars into being.

Tristan, creation of a wizard's last and greatest spell, agrees to hide his powers at the request of his friend, young King Cefwyn, while Cefwyn plans a war that he hopes will bring about his dream of a united kingdom.

A deadly cataclysm threatens the survival of a tiny planet that holds the key to peace between Earth and the alien world Ondat, a situation that is complicated by the arrival of an unexpected ship that could restart the Gene Wars.

Cajeiri is the young son of the powerful leader of the Western Associationand he has become a target for forces bent on destroying his fathers rule. For Cajeiri is the first ateva youth to have lived in a human environment. And after hundreds of years of fragile atevi-human coexistence, he may very well be the first of his people to ever truly understand the so similaryet so dangerously differentaliens who share his...

Now betrayed by the Emperor he once protected, master swordsman Saukendar leaves the way of the sword behind him forever-so he thinks. When a headstrong peasant girl burning to avenge her murdered family demands that he train her, Saukendar is faced with a momentous choice. Send Taizu away, never see her again-or join her and destroy the tyrant who has nearly destroyed them both.

In the aftermath of civil war, the world of the atevi is still perilously unstable. Tabini-aiji, powerful ruler of the Western Association, along with his son and heir, and his human paidhi, Bren Cameron, have returned to the Bu-javid, their seat of power. The usurper, Murini has escaped to the lands of his supporters, but the danger these rebels pose is far from over. The world of the atevi has fragmented into two antagonistic political camps: the...

Exhausted from a two-year rescue mission to a distant sector of space, and with resources strained by four thousand extra mouths to feed, the crew of the starship Phoenix yearns for the luxuries of home. But when the ship makes the final jump into atevi space, they learn the worst: supplies to their home station have been cut off; civil war has broken out on the atevi mainland; the powerful Western Association has been overthrown; and Tabini-aiji...

Diplomat Bren Cameron finds the fate of the world resting on his shoulders when he is sent into space to negotiate on behalf of the atevi race in an attempt to gain control of a long-abandoned human space station without sparking a deadly inter-species war.

The human and atevi residents of Alpha Station, orbiting the atevi home world, have picked up a signal from an alien kyo ship saying that the ship is headed toward Alpha. Five thousand of the inhabitants of Alpha are human refugees from Reunion Station, which was abandoned when a single kyo ship attacked without warning and destroyed a major section of the station. Bren Cameron, human emissary of Tabini-aiji, the powerful atevi leader on the mainland...