Echelon

Maia Thomas, the pregnant wife of the late prophet John Thomas, cannot stay with the human rebels. They are convinced her unborn child will save humankind from the Darushee, aliens who have taken over Earth, and are determined to train her child from infancy, even if doing so destroys her mind. Desperate to keep her child safe, Maia escapes but finds she needs more help than she thought. Her only hope is to rely on the outcast bounty hunter, Kaylan, to help her get away. But Kaylan is Darushee, and unwilling to take on someone with trouble, and a prophecy, right behind them.

Maia Thomas, now very pregnant with the child of a prophet and savior of the world, only wants one thing: to find a safe place to have her baby. In the city of Skielach, she hopes to find a way to contact those who built Roz and the mysterious program, Ventra, a program that might provide that safe place. Perhaps. But to do that, she has to go through Eishan Idierd, a devious Darushee merchant with plans of his own.

Maia Thomas is a Matriarch now. And starting to feel the side-effects of her husband's experiment. Desperate for a cure, she's managed to convince her own ship to let her visit the planet where Dr. Nirick, the doctor and geneticist who can help them, lives.But the clans are also looking for Nirick. And one of the bounty hunters they've sent seems to hold a particular hatred for Maia. Separated from her daughter, forced to trust a doctor with a horrifying secret, and increasingly concerned for her own sanity, Maia must find the answer to one question: Which monster should she trust?