Protector
It's coming up on Cajeiri's birthday. The boy has been promised he can
have the young human children he knew from his voyage sent down from the space station for a two week stay.
But there's far a darker
business going on in the background - a major split compromising the
Assassins' Guild, which furnishes security and law enforcement to the
whole continent. Tabini's consort's own father has been barred from
court, and may be involved in a new conspiracy against him.
For safety reasons, Tabini wants Bren and Ilisidi to take charge of
Cajeiri, and protect him and his young guests. They themselves are very
likely targets of whatever's going on, no question of it. So is Cajeiri. But having the targets separated and contained is an advantage.
It's Bren's responsibility to entertain the guests, keep the security
problem secret... and let a lonely eight-year-old prince reestablish his
controversial relationship with the only other children he's ever
met... inside the best security they can manage.
C. J. Cherryh
C. J. Cherryh (born 1942) is the pen name of Carolyn Janice Cherry, a multiple-award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer. She currently resides in Spokane County, Washington.
Cherryh is pronounced ”Cherry”. The author appended a silent ”h” to her real name because her first editor felt that ”Cherry” sounded too much like a romance writer.
The asteroid 77185 Cherryh has been named in her honour.
The Foreigner Universe
Lost in a navigational mishap, humans from the spaceship Phoenix have made landfall onto a planet inhabited by the atevi, whose thought processes are utterly alien to humans. This leads to a war with devastating results.
Bren Cameron is the current paidhi, whose job it is to provide translation services and act as the sole liaison between the humans, now settled on the island of Mospheira, and the atevi. But interesting times are ahead...
The Foreigner Universe consists of twenty-one books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
