The Beasts of Tranquility

Synopsis

The Starlands...A legendary realm long shrouded in mystery and myth. According to old Senitte tales, a piece of the legendary Magus Star fell to Alpha-Seni’s Chaloktae Desert in the distant past and created the Starlands and its mutated biota.But could that story be more than a myth? If so, what exactly happened? And how? Any expeditions to study the Magus Star and the Starlands have failed, ending in technological failure, madness, or death.A year after the bau-bau murders involving her shapeshifting sister Arshelle, Senitte fem Behoola Chaut and her Terran lover Simon Weller embark on a journey to discover what really happened to Arshelle and why a secretive shadow-group based in the Yharria known as the Altered, has an interest in her.Brother Luis Ortega and Sister Marsha Rusinovich of the Interstellar Hospice of New Terra, while participating in a humanitarian effort to help plague victims, discover one of their team members is more than she seems. Perhaps more than human.Puman mercenary Windett Kanoshon, undergoing a self-initiated ritual to free himself of the guilt, doubt,and anger, ventures into the one place that will challenge his survival like no other - the Starlands. A deep space mission by military and scientific members of the Templar Accord, the reborn Knights Templar, discover the truth about the Magus Star. But is it the entire truth or simply a part of a much bigger and terrifying picture?And through it all, a being known as Tazet’La, an Evolved One, also sets her sights on the Starlands. But for reasons all her own.