title: Close Contact
author: Allred, Katherine
description: GEPs just want to have fun . . .
  
  A Genetically Engineered Person and self-proclaimed "party girl," Echo Adams loves her diplomatic job entertaining alien bigwigs for the Galactic Federation. But the Bureau of Alien Affairs has discovered she's much more than she thinks -- that a rogue scientist endowed her with skills and psi abilities dwarfing those of common GEPs. And suddenly Echo's luxury life is over, replaced with a far more dangerous one: a special agent expected to not only chase bad guys but eliminate them.
  
  Echo hates being stuck on Madrea -- a planet of technophobes off limits to Federation visitors -- hunting for a stolen quartz crystal with a powerful alien life form embedded inside. She despises the Bureau's restrictive rules -- especially the one warning her away from the dangerously seductive commander of the king's army. And if she doesn't learn how to use her alleged super-psi powers soon, her partying days -- in fact all of her days -- will be over for good.