A.D. 3597Descendants of those who fled our galaxy during the great Xathen Civil War have returned, bearing the Message and Blessing of the Grand Designer.All who receive His Message will believe, and all will become One.Taylor and her daughters are presumed dead after the attack on Strathow.Oxim-four has fallen. The entire Oxim system has been cut off from the rest of the Xathen Dominion, but far too late to prevent the Blessing's relentless spread.It's only a matter of time until Xathen everywhere succumb to the Blessing and all that it entails, including vastly-shortened life-spans and the inability to Ascend to cheat death.When Taylor learns the galaxy-shattering truth behind the Blessing and how they might stop it, she is faced with an impossible choice:Should she save the civilization that tried to kill her family and the entire Orion Spur, including Earth?Or should she embrace the Returning Xathen who took her family in, and let the Blessing take its course?Read the thrilling conclusion to The Taylor Neeran Chronicles. James Jacob (J J) Mathews grew up with his nose stuck in books. A voracious reader in his youth, he devoured all of the science fiction and fantasy books he could find at the local library. J.R.R. Tolkein, Isaac Asimov, Ben Bova, Larry Niven, Voltaire and Greg Bear were some of his early influences, with many other authors added to his bookshelf as time went on. Broadening out to read more genres as an adult, J J has always held a special place for fantasy and sci-fi.J J is married and lives in Hamilton, New Zealand with his wife and three boys, and writes in his spare time. A.D. 3485All Taylor wanted was to get to know her mother. Now, she may never get that chance.Taylor went along for the ride to help her mother survey a new planet, and the offer of a few extra course credits for doing field work certainly didn't hurt.A planet on the edge of disputed territory, sure, but the war with the Xathen had ended thirty years ago, and the Commonwealth had won. It didn't matter that the first survey ship failed to return, things like that happen during wartime.But this was just term break, with two whole months to work alongside her mother and get to know her better while she sharpened her Xenobiology skills in a verdant paradise.With any luck, she would graduate early.Then Taylor messed up, big-time.Now she was lost, alone and struggling to survive, stranded ten thousand light-years from home

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