JO CLAYTON

"Aleytys is a heroine as tough as, and more believable and engaging than, the general run of swords-and-sorcery barbarians."
- Publishers Weekly

Aleytys, wanderer of the skies, seeker of the home planet of her mother's super-race, wearer-slave of the mind-enhancing diadem, is down on Maeve, forest planet of tree-dwellers and semi-humans.  Her aim to continue her quest, to shake her pursuers.

It's an action-packed adventure filled with conflict and conspiracy, guerrilla warfare between the tree-folk and the technology of the Company, and a face-to-face confrontation with the implacable spider-beings from whom the diadem was stolen....

"Clayton seems to have captured much of Andre Norton's touch in characterization, description, and her method of handling psionic powers, both between humans, and between humans and non-humans."
- Madison Review of Books