Dark Companion (2 Novels: Dark Piper and Dread Companion)

After the destruction of the planet Beltane, survivors encounter hostile mutant creatures remaining on their planet's surface in "Dark Piper," while in "Dread Companion," a nightmare unfolds when Kilda agrees to care for two children emigrating from Chalox to the planet Dylan, in an omnibus edition containing two classic science fiction adventures. In a future where humanity has scattered across the stars and Earth itself is a dimly remembered legend, two worlds of near-supernatural strangeness challenge two courageous young heros. Vere Collis and his friends were trapped underground when their planet was attacked, emerging to find hostile mutants had taken over the surface. A young governess accompanies her two charges to a frontier planet and finds the children are involved with an evil power.