Used book – Rediscovery, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mercedes Lackey

Leonie, a daughter of the Hastur clan, has just left for Dalreuth Tower, where she will learn to master her power. She is so gifted that she has a good chance of becoming a Guardian. But a premonition haunts her: something huge and dangerous is about to happen... ...and just then, she spots a large, mysterious bird in the red sky of Darkover. Something tells her it comes from one of the planet's four moons. She will soon learn that it is a starship sent by the Empire. The planet Darkover was once discovered by the passengers of a wrecked starship, whose descendants have forgotten their origins. Leonie is their heir. But the planet Earth, forgotten mother of the Darkovans, founded the Galactic Empire. She also doesn't know that she has sown lost humanity on a distant world. The reconnaissance starship has many things to rediscover... Marion Zimmer Bradley, the mother of Darkover, offers us here - with the collaboration of Mercedes Lackey, her best disciple - a new story on a theme highly anticipated by her millions of admirers. Darkover is somewhat the birthplace of imagination, romance, and passion.