Breaking Strain

SUMMARY: Sparta, a beautiful and mysterious agent whose superhuman ablities are the result of advanced biotechnology, investigates a tragic accident aboard the freighter "Star Queen" that leaves a lone survivor. Sparta is a young woman who grew up as Linda, was enrolled in a specieal program for the extremely intelligent, but was kidnapped and changed by the use of an advanced technology so that she has special and unusual skills and abilities. The mysterious cult that changed her cannot bend her will to their purpose; she escapes, assumes an alias, and rises, aided by her powers and a great deal of effort, to become a Space board investigator, wherein she solves crimes that may have been perpetrated by her abductors. Her abductors having blocked many of her memories before she was able to escape, she has to piece together her own history to get a sense of who she is, and piece together clues as to what the cult are about; she is aided in this by her friend Blake Redfield.