Precursor

The fourth novel in Cherryh’s  Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences… Over three years have passed since the reappearance of the starship Phoenix , which two centuries before left an isolated colony of humans on the world of the volatile atevi . Since that time, humans have lived in exile on the island of Mospheira; but the unexpected return of the Phoenix has shattered the fragile political balance of these two nearly incompatible ra