Contact Imminent

Cover art by Jean-Pierre Targete.

Jani still has Lucien Pascal; to complicate personal matters, her long-smoldering relationship with John Shroud, the physician responsible for her human-idomeni hybrid state, is throwing out the occasional spark. Her position as Haárin-human liaison, however, has taken a downturn. Human objection to the idomeni presence in the Commonwealth capital of Chicago is growing, and Jani-the-hybrid finds herself distrusted by both sides.

Spurred by a personal request from Tsecha and an odd hologram image received by John Shroud, Jani undertakes a mission to quell a brewing power struggle at the Haárin enclave on the human colony of Elyas. Together with John, she investigates the origin of the image, and Jani realizes that the growing dissension between the ruling Vynshàrau and their Haárin is only one aspect of a situation that could alter the futures of human and idomeni alike.