Rowan series

A mud slide destroys a frontier settlement on another planet and a psychic cry unlike anything heard before floods the minds of the remaining inhabitants. After a desperate search by the authorities, an orphaned three-year-old girl is found. Called "the Rowan," she grows into a woman of beauty and immense telepathic powers.

Over three generations, the Talent has increased and broadened, giving Dania's children a combined power greater than any before. And now with the Mrdini discovery of the possible route to the Hive Home System, a new era begins, and three of Damia's children become intimately involved in the case.

Human agents infiltrate the Hivers, an aggressive alien race of insectoid species, to study their culture and defeat them. Or better still, learn to communicate with them and reach a modus vivendi.