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

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. Kilda was entrusted with the education of two children with an "imaginary friend" - which turned out to be neither imaginary nor a friend, and when it led the children through a rift in space time into a dangerous other world, Kilda had to follow, knowing that she was their only hope. Two complete novels of very different heroes fighting to protect the helpless in worlds that are wondrous, terrifying, and utterly alien.

In a future where humanity has scattered itself across the stars and Earth itself is now a dimly-remembered place of legend, two worlds of near-supernatural strangeness challenge two naive but courageous heros. The planet Beltane had been unscathed by the all-encompassing war of the four Sectors when Vere Collis and his friends, exploring caves underground, were trapped by powerful explosions on the surface. Their leader was killed, but the group wandered for days underground to find a way to the surface. They emerged to find that they were the last human survivors on Beltane. Only strange and deadly mutant creatures now roamed the surface. Elsewhere in the galaxy, Kilda¿s home planet had no place for her, so she took employment as a teacher and governess to two young children on the planet named Dylan. But she soon found that one of her charges has an invisible ¿dread companion¿¿and soon Kilda knows that the companion is not imaginary at all, as it leads her charges into an other-dimensional world resembling the legends of Faerie. Though the other world has unknown dangers on every hand, Kilda follows the children across the spatial barrier, knowing that she is their only hope. Two complete novels of two very different heroes battling alien and unknown evil, and fighting to protect the helpless in worlds that are wondrous, terrifying, and utterly alien.

Publisher¿s Note: Dark Companion has previously appeared separately as Dark Piper and Dread Companion. This is the first combined publication in paperback of the complete book.

In a future where humanity has scattered itself across the stars and Earth itself is now a dimly-remembered place of legend, two worlds of near-supernatural strangeness challenge two naive but courageous heroes. The planet Beltane had been unscathed by the all-encompassing war of the four Sectors when Vere Collis and his friends, exploring caves underground, were trapped by powerful explosions on the surface. Their leader was killed, but the group wandered for days underground to find a way to the surface. They emerged to find that they were the last human survivors on Beltane. Only strange and deadly mutant creatures now roamed the surface. Elsewhere in the galaxy, Kilda's home planet had no place for her, so she took employment as a teacher and governess to two young children on the planet named Dylan. But she soon found that one of her charges has an invisible dread companion and soon Kilda knows that the companion is not imaginary at all, as it leads her charges into an other-dimensional world resembling the legends of Faerie. Though the other world has unknown dangers on every hand, Kilda follows the children across the spatial barrier, knowing that she is their only hope. Two complete novels of two very different heroes battling alien and unknown evil, and fighting to protect the helpless in worlds that are wondrous, terrifying, and utterly alien 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. A young governess accompanies her two charges to a frontier planet and finds the children are involved with an evil power.