Krentz, Jayne Ann - Sweet Starfire

Title: Sweet Starfire
Author: Jayne Ann Krentz
Series: none
Pub: Warner Books
Pub Date: 1986
ISBN: 0-446-63532-7
Genre: futuristic
Time Period:
Setting: several planets
Hero: Teague Severance
Heroine: Cidra Rainforest

Summary:

She was Cidra, an ethereal, fiery-haired beauty, raised amid the serenity and shelter of a spiritual race, but belonging to another people, the so-called Wolves. He was Teague Severance, a ruggedly handsome adventurer, a Wolf used to taking - and getting - the woman he wanted.

Side by side on a dangerous quest, they would soar from the shimmering towers of Cidra's home city, to the rough-and-rowdy mining towns of the galaxy's outback, to the lush, deadly jungles of the planet Renaissance. It was their fate to battle both human and alien danger - and each other. For Severance would awaken Cidra's untamed and passionate Wolf heritage - and the stirrings of a dark, hot desire she had never known before ...

Excerpt:

The tavern was awash with blood. Cidra Rainforest saw splashes of crimson everywhere--seeping from a gash in a man's forehead, staining the front of another's shirt, tricking from still another's mouth. Glancing down, she saw that there was even a spatter of blood on the hem of her early-evening surplice robes. To Cidra the delicate yellow-gold fabric spun of the finest crystal moss was not just soiled but frighteningly scarred.

She was surrounded by a scene she had never before experienced, never even been able to imagine, and she found herself incapable of coping with it. It wasn't just the sight of so much blood that held Cidra immobilized with shock. All around her the vicious fighting continued unabated, even though Cidra knew that by now the combatants must be experiencing unutterable pain. Yet they raged on. The violence of it horrified her.


Comments:

The Lost Colony novels, originally written as Jayne Castle.
Also available in one volume with the ISBN 0-446-53137-5.

Book one: Sweet Starfire
Book two: Crystal Flame