The Catteni conquerors swooped down on an unsuspecting Earth as they had on many another world. Striking fifty key cities around the globe, they carried off countless human slaves to be sent to the next planet slated for colonization-expendable trailblazers in the expansion of their empire. Kris Bjornsen was one of a number of deportees from other worlds who were dumped on a nameless planet with limited supplies and no information about how to survive in an alien environment. She and her fellow “colonists” all might have perished that first day, had it not been for Zainal, a renegade Catteni exiled by his own people. With Zainal’s help, the colonists learned to thrive on the planet they named Botany. But they soon discovered they weren’t its first inhabitants. The world was occupied by machines left behind by Botany’s true owners-machines that could be converted to human needs. But who were the alien “Farmers” and would they aid the colonists in their quest for freedom? Zainal was impatient to find out. He knew the Catteni were merely the tools of the Eosi, an even more powerful species that had achieved virtual immortality by taking over the minds and bodies of its subject races. It was crucial that the Farmers help the colonists win against the Catteni conquerors, but afterwards, would the Botanists be prepared to help liberate the people of Earth and of Catten as well?

ISBN: 9780739426159