The Misborn I

It's a fly, only a common housefly, one of those pests who accidentally hitched a ride on one of the innumerable ships from Old Earth to the new colony worlds of the Four Species Alliance.So how can it scream and curse in the voice of a woman dead for months? And why is it attacking her daughter, and her daughter's would-be lover?Jared Ramirez Ph.D has come a long way from the place of his birth, a domed colony on a remote mining world, where he and his mother lived in poverty. Now he has a doctorate in cultural linguistics and he is settled on the planet Haivran, the intellectual heart of the Four Species Alliance. He enjoys his work as a teacher and translator of historical documents from Alliance cultures. He has bought a house surrounded by neighbors from all four Alliance species who have become his virtual family. Some of them even share his telepathic gifts, a secret ability he has had from childhood. He has never thought much about it – just a little talent, he thinks –...