Envoy

Envoy describes the peace-keeping processes of the future, and is a tense and exciting story.

"This book is quite a long one, yet there are no slow stretches, not a gram of padding. I want to know more about almost everyone and everything. ...I'd compare Envoy with some of Anne McCaffrey's best work, but it is in no way derivative. I've never read anything like it." – Sally's Reading Corner, On-line book magazine, Australia

Channa Harknell is a Zone Leader in the military and heir to Faction Harknell. Living on the war-torn planet of Evral all her life, she has known nothing but war. Now that the Galactic Confederation has intervened, she has been chosen as Shavlan Envoy to negotiate peace for her people.

The Peace Corps of the Galactic Confederation is determined to stop the war between the Shavlans and the Deorin. Senior Mediator, Joran Lovrel, brings all his wiles and experience to break down Channa's resistance to the idea of peace. But can Channa trust him? And can she trust that her traditional enemies, the Deorin, will keep any peace?

Isolated in the neutral territory of the Confederation's island base, Mediator and Envoy begin a battle of wits more demanding than any military campaign and not for a while does Channa discover that her arch-enemy Van Makass is also at the base.

Meanwhile, back in Shavla and Deora new allegiances are being formed, fresh betrayals hatched. And in the name of peace Channa must face more danger than she has ever encounterd in a lifetime of war.