<p>&nbsp;</p><p>The empath Thane and his adopted telepathic daughter Ilaria are summoned to the Wald to investigate a dead body washed onto the shores of the densely forested planet; however, once it is discovered the deceased had been a renegade psychic, the body is destroyed before they can determine who she was or, more importantly, what she was doing on a forbidden planet. As psions are hated and mistrusted by the Citizens of the Janus Empire, there are few who care that the evidence showed the woman had been murdered.</p><p><br></p><p>Their investigation is seemingly at a dead end until dozens more bodies are discovered-all of them psychics and all of them killed by having their psychic cells removed.</p><p><br></p><p>Determined to discover who is murdering their kind and why, Thane and Ilaria's investigation is complicated even further when the ambassadors of a neighboring empire turn up dead and their own Emperor is nearly assassinated.</p><p><br></p><p>Published by Blue Forge Press.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>