Title: The Shadow Matrix
First published: January 1, 2001
Description: After spending her youth in the Terran Empire, Margaret Alton returns to Darkover, the planet of her birth. There she discovers she has the Alton Gift--forced rapport and compulsion--one of the strongest and most dangerous of the inherited "Laran" gifts of the telepathic Comyn--the ruling families of Darkover. And even as she struggles to control her newfound powers, Margaret finds herself falling in love with the Regent to the royal Elhalyn Domain, a man she has been forbidden to marry, for their alliance would irrevocably alter the power balance of their planet!
Subjects: Fiction, Darkover (Imaginary place), Life on other planets, Science Fiction, Darkover (imaginary place), fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general