The Shadow Matrix

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In Exile's Song , the long-awaited sequel to The Heritage of Hastur and Sharra's Exile , Margaret Alton, daughter of Lew Alton, returned to Darkover after a youth spent on the Terran Empire. But the planet of her birth seemed a bizarre and terrifying place, and Margaret was haunted by the image of a Tower of mirrors, and a commanding voice in her head-a voice which filled her with fear.When she began to hear fragments of speech, words which had never been voiced Margaret learned that she had the Alton Gift-forced rapport and compulsion-one of the strongest and most dangerous of the inherited laran gifts of the telepathic Comyn-the ruling families of Darkover. Yet she had also been overshadowed-her telepathic channels tampered with-and she had to find a way to break free from the influence of this unknown foe or she would become a menace to herself and everyone around her. But she did not escape unharmed from this encounter, for etched into her left hand was a shadow matrix-a rare, dangerous, and little-understood tool of power. In The Shadow Matrix , Margaret has been making a desperate effort to control her new-found powers, but even the learned Tower workers cannot understand the obscure, potent, and frightening nature of her unusual matrix. However Margaret's problems are not limited to the mystical powers of the mind, for as the rightful heir of the Alton Domain, she has become the nexus of a political battle which threatens to disrupt Comyn Council-the governing body of Darkover.To make matters worse, she has fallen in love with Mikhail Lanart-Hastur, Regent to the royal Elhalyn Domain, a man she has been forbidden to marry, for their alliance would irrevocably alter the power balance of their planet. But then Margaret and Mikhail find themselves drawn inexorably to the ruins of an ancient Tower-a Tower destroyed centuries ago, and they are sent back through time, to an era where every choice they make will impact on the world of their own present. For a long dead Keeper, one of the most powerful beings ever born on Darkover, waits for them in the Ages of Chaos. And in the quest set for them by this ancient shade they will face foes and challenges beyond their wildest imaginings in a battle which may not only change the entire face of their world, but could alter the future so that they no longer exist!

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