Acorna's Triumph
Acorna's Triumph is a 2004 fantasy or science fiction novel by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. It was the seventh book in the Acorna Universe series, which McCaffrey and Margaret Ball initiated in "" (1997). "Triumph" completed Acorna's biography, which is sometimes called the Acorna series. It was followed by First Warning, sometimes called the first book of the Acorna's Children trilogy. Plot synopsis. Acorna's lifemate, Aari, has returned home, and the two may together finish rebuilding their home world. Yet the Aari that has returned from his time travels is different from  the one who left, to the point that he almost doesn't remember Acorna or the love that the two shared together. During the confusion while Acorna shifts her attention to stopping a violent criminal from harming innocents, the wicked Khleevi return to retake the planet and destroy the Linyaari and conquer their world. It takes all of Acorna's will to rescue the Aari she loves and put a stop to the Khleevi menace.