THE SHIP'S COMPUTER CHOOSES YHELLE . . . PLANET OF ILLUSIONS!Rheba the Senyas Fire Dancer and her Bre'n mentor Kirtn are continuing their mission to return a shipload of ex-slaves to their home planets. The computer lottery brings up the name of Yhelle, a civilised planet where all the inhabitants use illusion as a part of everyday life. But the two illusionists on board Devalon don't seem very pleased to be going home.Landing on Yhelle, Rheba finds confusion both in the multitude of illusions she encounters and in the apparent disappearance of her illusionists' clan. Nothing is what it seems, apart from the very real danger of death by ecstasy, a fate which could away Fire Dancer, Bre'n and the entire planetary population!

Behind them, Destruction.Before them, the Universe.Senyas dancers - on their home planet they practised their unique skills, their smooth skin glowing with complex patterns as they learnt to harness the elemental energies of Nature through Dances of Power. Their constant companions, the fur-covered humanoids who were their Bre'n mentors, alone could channel and control Senyas power. Yet together they had failed to save Deva, an inferno devoured by its greedy sun.Two survivors - and perhaps more? Rheba, the fire dancer, and Kirtn, her Bre'n, swore to search the known - and unknown - universe for others of their kind. And though they knew the danger, they courted the attention and fell into the clutches of the dreaded Loo-chim, galactic slavers from whose clutches none escaped alive . . .But then the Loo-chim had never encountered a Fire Dancer in her power and glory . . .

DAEMEN -a forgotten place at the very edge of the galaxy, a dying planet where people lived by luck alone. This was the number-one stop for Rheba, the Senyas fire dancer, and Kirtn, her Bre'n mentor, as they sought to fulfil their promise to return a whole shipload of ex-slaves to the widely scattered worlds they called home.Twice Rheba and Kirtn had achieved the impossible - first surviving their own home system's fiery doom, then escaping the lair of the evil Loo-chim, bringing with them the odd assortment of beings who were now their shipmates. Having blasted free of the Loo-chim, Rheba and Kirtn assumed the worst was over. Then they landed on Daemen...Don't miss FIRE DANCER, also by Ann Maxwell and available from Futura.