num_pages: 368
description: Kiera Smith is not like ordinary Genetically Engineered Persons...The Bureau of Alien Affairs needed a special GEP agent with empathic abilities to handle their most extraordinary assignmentsand a rogue geneticist saw to it that Kiera fit their specifications. But she turned out stronger faster smarter and more impervious to harm than anyone anticipated. A reluctant superhero Kiera wishes she were normal but it is not to be.On Orpheus Two the indigenous Buri race faces extinction a prospect the powerful Dynatec corporation welcomes and in fact may be actively hastening. It is Kiera's job to protect these beautiful exotic aliens . . . and to discover what there is on Orpheus Two that Dynatec feels is worth killing for.But the magnetic allure of Thor the breathtaking Buri leader is proving a dangerous distraction. And now to save Thor's people Kiera will need a power she's never before possessedsomething hidden in the unexplored recesses of her heart.
language: English
title: Close Encounters
publisher: Harper Voyager