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y separately published work icon Watcher's Web single work   novel   young adult   science fiction  
Is part of Return of the Aghyrians Patty Jansen , 2012 series - author novel (number 1 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Watcher's Web
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'She’s not your ordinary country girl, even though she might look like one. She casts webs of power, reading the feelings of living beings and telling them what to do. Nobody knows what causes it, least of all her. Her name is Jessica, but most people call her ‘freak’.'

'One fateful day, her ‘web’ connects with a stranger, and stray power causes the plane in which she’s travelling to crash in an alien world. An accident? The more she discovers about the world in which she has landed, the more she doubts it. She is a survivor from an ancient race that once travelled the stars. Her ancestors were powerful and dangerous, and it seems at least two people want her: the man who invades her mind, and the man who’s desperate to help her get back home. But Jessica grew up an Earth girl, and isn’t having any of this. She’ll pander to no one, thank you very much, even if her stubbornness enrages the tyrant race who hold the world in their grip.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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    y separately published work icon Return of the Aghyrians Omnibus Patty Jansen , Sydney : Capricornia Publications , 2014 20805168 2014 selected work novel science fiction

    'A space opera series that spans four self-contained stories that add up to a larger tale.

    'In Watcher’s Web, Jessica is lost on an alien world after a plane crash, or that’s what she thinks. In her efforts to return home, she discovers a horrible truth about herself. Two men are overly keen to help her, but which of them speaks the truth?

    'In Trader’s Honour, Mikandra has just been accepted as apprentice with an influential Trading family when she sees her life’s dream evaporate from under her. Going to Barresh to locate the family’s missing money sounds simple enough, but she uncovers layers of betrayal by people she trusted.

    'In Soldier’s Duty jaded soldier Izramith accepts a contract providing security for a an event in Barresh. Privately, she is looking for her uncle who disappeared in the neighbouring nation of Miran. He was not the only one; people like him have been disappearing for years. Attempting to free them from the heart of Miran makes her undertake the most hare-brained operation of all her military career.

    'In Heir’s Revenge the task of facing the tyrant of Miran is left to the least likely person of all: Ellisandra, a genteel young lady whose normal job it is to run the Mirani state theatre. She has no guns. Her weapons are words and a single public performance of a classic play.'

    Source : publisher's blurb

         Sydney : Capricornia Publications , 2014
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