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Since the dreaded Xik destroyed Earth, the corps of Beast Masters and the animal teams with which
they have telepathic rapport have served as sentinels against the Xik and other threats to colony worlds
throughout the galaxy.

Now a conspiracy with ties to the Thieves Guild is trying to kidnap the Beast Masters' team animals.
On one world after another, they are attacking Beast Masters and targeting their animals, leaving a trail of
dead or wounded Beast Masters and their animals in their wake. They haven't yet succeeded in capturing
one alive ... but they are still trying, and they're becoming more desperateтАФand bolder.

Laris is a young woman who works for a space-faring circus, a bonded slave to its manager. An
orphan with a troubled past, Laris is gifted with animals, a valuable asset to the circus and to her boss.
But she's learned that somehow there's a connection between him and the Thieves Guild, and also the
attempted abductions of Beast Masters' animals. She also knows that if her boss finds out what she has
discovered, it would make her a problem, and he usually disposes of problems.

When the circus lands on Arzor, home to Beast Masters Hosteen and Tani Storm, Laris feels a
kinship to them and to Hosteen's family, the Quades. She realizes, however, that she may be endangering
them by exposing them to the dark interest of her boss and his ill-intentioned friends. Hosteen and Tani
like Laris, too, as does Logan Quade. She would give anything to tell them her dangerous secret but
cannot. Because she knows that her friendship with the Beast Masters could be their downfall, as well as
her own!




ANDRE NORTON, named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America and the
recipient of a Life Achievement World Fantasy Award, is the author of more than one hundred novels of
science fiction and fantasy adventure. Beloved by legions of readers the world over, she has thrilled
generations with such series as Beast Master, Time Traders, The Solar Queen, Witch World, and
others. She continues to write, and presides over a unique writers' resource, High Hallack, in
Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Visit her Web site at www.andre-norton.org.




LYN MCCONCHIE is the author, with Andre Norton, of Beast Master's Ark and other novels, as
well as her own fiction. A native of New Zealand, she has been awarded the Sir Julius Vogel Award for
Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel of 2002 by a New Zealander, for Beast Master's Ark.
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Lyn McConchie
 This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are either fictitious or are
used fictitiously.

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