Once, telepaths almost wiped out humankind. Centuries later, a brotherhood called the Gentle Hand lives to keep it from happening again.
At 22, Langston Wheeler chomps at the bit to graduate and join their ranks. But when he finds a fellow student murdered in Servants’ Yard, his last few months in school take a mysterious turn, and the hunt for the killer borders on impossible.
Cleo Sable cuts short a meteoric career in the field to return to the Yard and teach others her craft. When Wheeler turns to her for help solving the murder, her comfortable post as a professor plunges into dangerous waters. Wheeler and Sable must catch the killer before a terrifying secret from the past brings the whole order down, and that may be the least of their worries. Every Gentle Hand lives under strict rules to control the gene for telepathy: who they serve, who they obey, and who they are allowed to love.
Bringing a murderer to justice draws Lang and Cleo inexorably together, but the system won’t be satisfied until they’re apart. A killer stalks Servants’ Yard, and an ancient evil stands ready to rise again. If they fail, any hope Lang and Cleo have for happiness could be lost, and Human Space plunged into the thunder of interstellar war.
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