Freedom's Challenge

The uneasy peace on Botany shatters when the human and dissident-Catteni colonists learn a hard truth: the Catteni themselves answer to something worse, an alien overlord species called the Eosi who have been pulling strings the whole time. Zainal and Kris Bjornsen turn from colony-building to something closer to war, organizing a mission to rescue the families of Catteni allies trapped on the Eosi-controlled homeworld and lay the groundwork for open rebellion. The third book of Anne McCaffrey's Catteni series raises the stakes from survival to outright resistance.