Marley, Louise

Zahra IbSada, a medicant on the planet of Irustan, chafes beneath the restrictions that keep women under the control of their fathers and husbands, but she sets off a revolution when she surreptitiously helps a friend keep her young daughter from being given in marriage to a man who has already killed two wives.

When the powerful Cho uses his gift to take over the House of Soren, only Cantrix Sira can stop him before he destroys the entire planet of Nevya.

On Nevya--a sunless world whose population is sustained by the heat and light its Cantors and Cantrixes create from psi energy channeled through music--Emle, a young Singer who cannot channel her psi, is sent to a remote outpost as a translator for a voiceless Cantrix, where, struggling to come to terms with her flaw, she gets involved in the life of a troubled, talented girl being exploited by her abusive stepfather.

The only way therapist Victoria Lake can think to protect her estranged son, Jack, from a case turned deadly is to make a complete break from the past. As painful as it is, it's safer for him if he - and her enemies - think she's dead. Jack never wanted to believe in his mother's psychic abilities. Yet he can't deny his own conviction that she's alive, despite the meticulous police investigation and the somber funeral. To survive, Victoria knows she has to reinvent herself completely.