Publisher's Synopsis
<ul> <li>Special 20th Anniversary Edition, featuring a new introduction by Mercedes Lackey!</li> <li>Successful SF writer Anne McCaffrey and hot fantasy author Mercedes Lackey collaborate on this heartwarming tale of a little girl's search for a long-dead race of starfarers — set in the same universe as McCaffrey's bestsellers <i>The Ship Who Sang </i>and <i>PartnerShip</i>. When seven-year-old Tia falls mysteriously ill while on an archaeological dig with her parents, she attributes it to the EsKays, a race whose artifacts are scattered throughout the galaxy, but whose fate remains an enigma.</li></ul>