When Cassidy Hollis was twenty-eight years old, a routine blood test for a chronic condition she had managed since adolescence returned a result that no laboratory could explain: her mitochondrial DNA matched nothing in any known human database, its origin formally recorded as unknown.

What followed, documented in Star Child, was the story of how Cass learned the truth her mother Paula had been carrying for decades: that she was the daughter of an Experiencer, born with a biological inheritance that placed her outside the ordinary categories of human ancestry, and that she was not the only one. (We don't use the term alien-hybrid)

Cass met David Morrow in the community her mother had belonged to for years, a quiet network of ordinary people who shared extraordinary accounts, and discovered that he carried the same inheritance she did.

They chose each other, knowing that what was to come for them could not yet be mapped.

Their daughter Eleanor, the subject of the second novel in this series, spent the first eleven years of her life gradually understanding that she perceived the world through a channel her friends and classmates did not: an ability to receive the emotional states of people around her, to sense things at a distance, and, in time, to know things before she could account for knowing them.

A Sense of Justice begins when Eleanor is twenty-two, living alone in a city apartment, working to keep what she carries small and manageable, and about to find out that small and manageable would never be the whole of it.

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