Exile's Song (1996) (edit title/settings)

Miranda O edited the description of Exile's Song Monday, June 6, 2011.

• Haunted by childhoodShe was Margaret Alton, the daughter of Lew Alton, the Darkovan representative to the Terran Imperial Senate, but she remembered almost nothing about the planet of her birth, or her early and tumultuous childhood. What fleeting memories disturbed her sleep were fragments of aterror--a strange silver man and a screaming woman in flames,with hair that circled her head like a ring of fire.

  As soon as Margaret Alton returnswas of age, she fled her stormy home and took refuge on University where she was granted the position of assistant to a renowned musicologist. This prestigious job took her to many worlds, and when she was assigned to collect folk songs on Darkover, Margaret was curious and pleased.

  But under the planetlight of the red sun, Margaret's innocent excitement quickly waned. The world of her birth, where her memories lead herbirth evoked long-buried memories, painful and terrifying, and she soon found herself driven by a destiny more dreadful than any nightmare. For the screaming woman and the silver man were merely markers on a trail--a trail which led into Margaret's own mind, and toward a trap which had been set for her centuries before her birth.birth....

Norman H edited the description of Exile's Song Friday, December 17, 2010.

• Haunted by childhood memories of a strange silver man and a woman in flames, Margaret Alton returns to Darkover, the planet of her birth, where her memories lead her into a trap set centuries before her birth. Reprint.birth.

Shelfari edited the description of Exile's Song Saturday, August 8, 2009.

• Haunted by childhood memories of a strange silver man and a woman in flames, Margaret Alton returns to Darkover, the planet of her birth, where her memories lead her into a trap set centuries before her birth. Reprint.