Julie Czerneda

On the distant world of Cersi, Omray Aryl Sarc and her supporters have been exiled from the rest of their people. Finding refuge in the mountains, they work to rebuild the ruined village of Sona, even as they try to discover what happened to the original Sona Clan. But Sona has a history among all three of Cersis racesa history that may soon threaten the future of Aryls newly founded clan....

In the first book of the Stratification series, set in an earlier time in Czerneda's Trade Pact Universe, the Clan has not yet learned how to manipulate the M'hir to travel between worlds. Instead, they are a people divided into small tribes, scattered over a fraction of their world, and prevented from advancing by two other powerful races who control both technology and terrain.

The space-capable members of the Om'ray species converge on the Sona settlement, a situation that prompts the M'hiray to plan the evacuation of Cersi to prevent a disruption of the peace-keeping Agreement.

"In The Dream Gatherer, Kristen Britain presents a novella and two short stories set in the universe of her best selling Green Rider series in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the publication of her first novel, Green Rider."--Amazon.