Chapter One

Book 2 of the Sandorian Trilogy. Tasha Lawrence is back! She's spent the last six months working in a failed colony backwater when William T. Riker arrives at her door asking for help. Her home planet of Sandor has started an interplanetary conflict and Captain Picard is hoping she can act as an intermediary. When she arrives, however, she's confronted with the horrors of her past and the reemergence of a childhood friend, one who now will stop at nothing to destroy her.