WAR MINSTRELS TRILOGY. 1. WOMAN WITHOUT A SHADOW. 2. THE WAR MINSTRELS. 3. SISTER BLOOD. 3 VOLUME SET. by Haber, Karen - 1995

New York: Daw, 1995. Three volume set, 6 7/8" H. 1. Woman Without a Shadow - 300 pp, 1995 first printing, ISBN 0886776279. "The Mindstones were the only reason anyone lived on - or more accurately, in - the planet Styx. An uninhabitable ice world, Styx only survived as an underground mining colony because of the discovery of the beautiful jewel called Cyrilite, a crystalline stone with unique, mind-altering properties. But to Kayla John Reed, Styx was the only home she'd ever known until her parents were killed in a tragic mining accident. Claiming her father's Guild seat, the extraordinarily gifted young empath was forced to flee the planet when she tangled with the Kellers, the wealthiest and most important psi family in the colony. (With a) bounty on her head, Kayla found an unexpected haven aboard the 'Falstaff', a 'merchant' spaceship that stretched the limits of legal shipping beyond the breaking point." 2. The War Minstrels - 304 pp, 1995 first printing,ISBN 0886776694. "(T)he forces of magnate Pelleas Karlson and empath Yates Keller were out to put an end to all the Free Traders who currently plied the spaceways. Kate (formerly Kayla) had nearly fallen victim to the Groupmind controlled by Yates in her last devastating encounter with this ruthless enemy. And with her own empathic talents greatly weakend as a result, she knew that she would need to draw on resources far beyond her own to help the rebel troops known as the War Minstrels in their bid to break Karlson's control of the spaceways. Her only hope lay in finding the Mindstar, a mindstone of legendary proportions which would give its successful wielder infiinite power - or suck the very life out of anyone who tried to master it and failed." 3. Sister Blood - 298 pp, 1996 first printing,ISBN 0886777089. "The War Minstrels had struck a crucial blow at the heart of Yates Keller's empire, conquering the Alliance capital, Vardalia. It should have been Kayla's moment of triumph. But Vardalia was a shambles, and not only had Yates himself escaped, he claimed to have her friends and shipmates in his clutches. She had no choice but to agree to the terms he'd left in a holographic messsage. Meet him on their own home world, the mining colony Styx, surrender the fabled Mindstone to him, and he would release her friends. Yet even as she set off for the rendezvous point, trouble was brewing among the War Minstrels - trouble that could transform their successful revolution into the deadliest kind of anarchy if she didn't make it back in time. And what Kayla had no way of foreseeing was that Styx itself hid a peril far greater than any trap Keller had planned for her." Interiors - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exteriors - very light edgewear/browning, tiny tear at top edge of a few pages in vol. 1, flat spines with very faint crease on vol. 3.. First printings.. Mass Market Paperbacks. Very Good. Illus. by Romas Kukalis, cover art..