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The Shadow Matrix

Marion Zimmer Bradley

2001556 pagesabout 8–13 hours
2001
first published
  • 1997Daw Books · ENGISBN 9780886777432
  • 1999DAW Books · 556 pages · ENGISBN 9780886778125
  • 2009Penguin USA, Inc. · ENGISBN 9781101163719

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!

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