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Shadith’s Quest Series

Jo Clayton
A young woman and her companions must stop an opportunistic destroyer of worlds who will stop at nothing to make a profit in Shadith’s Quest.
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Shadith’s Quest Series : Titles in Order

Book 3
Now in ebook for the first time, the third and final book of Clayton’s classic sci-fi trilogy
Book 2
Now in ebook for the first time, the second book of Clayton’s classic sci-fi trilogy

The price of a world’s death was extremely high, but Ginbiryol Seyirshi would give any buyer his money’s worth. Creator of Limited Editions, “productions” in which entire populations became unwilling actors in planet-devastating wars, Seyirshi had once held Shadith captive. But now she and her comrades are free from Seyirshi’s control, and they have sworn to track down the monster and put an end to his evil works.

But Seyirshi has made many enemies in his long career and long ago learned how to protect himself from those in search of vengeance. To stop the world-wrecker, Shadith will first have to find him. And now she and her comrades have found the perfect bait: Wargun, one of Seyirshi’s devoted “customers”. But before they can carry out their real mission, they have to capture Wargun. And even with Shadith’s unique talents, this first challenge may prove almost as impossible as catching Seyirshi himself…
Book 1
Now in ebook for the first time, the first book of Clayton’s classic trilogy, Shadith’s Quest 

Spacenapped when she stumbled on a kidnapping in progress, Shadith—captive for centuries in the alien artifact known as the Diadem, now once again living in a human form—finds herself the prisoner of Ginbiryol Seyirshi, a being who has instigated devastating wars on world after world purely to film and sell Limited Editions of the resulting violence, destruction, and death.

Along with two fellow humanoid prisoners, Shadith has been chosen to play a key role in Seyirshi’s newest “production”, serving as a demigod around whom the rebel forces will rally only to face a terrible doom. But prisoner though she is, Shadith has some unique resources of her own, and with these Diadem-mastered powers, she will do all she can to rewrite Seyirshi’s script so that the people of this troubled planet as well as she and her fellow captives can win their freedom and put an end to Seyirshi’s interstellar reign of terror…

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