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With a Universe-wide respect for all living things, and all potential living things, the Compact (alien) people are appalled by the terraforming of the Humans' colony planet, Azureign, and what new life it might have destroyed. It was too late to recover what might have been, but the Compact sets out to teach Humanity a lesson. Azureign is put under interdiction: no contact with anyone but the few Compact aliens who enforce the interdiction. What do the colonists now have to do to survive? In this set of five novels, we experience the Helper animals created to assist the colonists. We learn...

An orphaned girl and her big dragon have a big problem: Will he ever fly? On the terraformed earth-colony Azureign, ecologically-friendly dragons were genetically engineered to carry riders. Their job is to help settlers deliver urgent items and send messages quickly across great distances. Shala is chosen to ride. Now her future depends on her dragon, Nizael.But Nizael may be too big to fly. Will she be able to coax him into flight before the dragon queens choose their mates and form their packs? Or will Shala and her dragon be loners forever?

The colony on the beautiful planet Azureign has been cut off from Earth for a millennium. The several alien species of the Compact watch over the planet to ensure the human settlers and their Helper species do not create or use technology that could further damage or pollute the terraformed world. Now the Dolphinfolk, a Helper species engineered to aid the settlers in traveling on Azureign's violent oceans, are refusing to Help. Instead, they urge the few humans they trust to join their revolt and free Azureign from the alien restraints. Princess Tingh Tae Lha, fleeing a bloody coup, ...

Rokumon Tanaka’s new pet isn’t working out. The little guy is cute, he’s inquisitive, and his little paws are really good at lockpicking. But raka are supposed to be HELPER animals…and how is being cute and curious any help to a settler? Ro intends to find out. He is determined to go to the Azureign Oracle to get an answer to that question, as well as a more personal one: How can he save his mother from her Reyes family curse?

On the interdicted colony planet Azureign, the uplifted dolphin species called Dolphinfolk have chosen to revolt, asking for "Dirt People" help to free them from the "Sky People" or alien interdiction and stringent rules, which amount to slavery. The Human nation of Tehassa has agreed to help by providing ships with cannons, air balloons to scout, and first aid pods. Zeden, heir to the throne of Tehassa, would rather see new places and ways of doing things than be stuck in the capitol as the leader of Azureign's smallest nation. Better his sister Zola should inherit the throne, for she ...

Silhouetted against the faint light from the window is a small, incredibly dirty girl. Her big brown eyes are open wide, filling with tears. She wears a tattered white dress. Her feet are bare and bloody. She holds a squirming baby. One of her small filthy fingers is in the baby’s mouth. “Do you have any milk?” she asks. Her voice is so soft that Marisol has to lean forward to hear. “I have milk at home, nearby,” she says. “Where are your parents?” “The monsters took them.” Monsters? “What did they look like?” “Great big bugs,” she says. Her expression dares ...