The White Rain Came

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. On a rugged, half-domesticated Mars, telepath Lynne Fenlay feels painfully out of place at her twin brother's mass wedding, where marriage, family, and even farewell are handled with frontier practicality. Homesick and repelled by the colony's rough customs, she is also unnerved by Rolf Marcein, a charismatic, drunken Martian whose flirtation stirs both anger and attraction. But Lynne's private misery is only the beginning: beneath the ceremony lies a harder truth about Mars, a world dependent on sacrifice, separation, and extraordinary people to survive. When a telepathic cry pulls her to Nampura Depot, Lynne finds death, psychic collapse, and a research project gone disastrously wrong. As she and the other telepaths investigate, they uncover signs of an unknown alien intelligence that seems to inflame desire, irritation, and recklessness, while a necro-recorder session points the source beyond Mars to Callisto. Rolf insists on an immediate, unauthorized journey there, and Lynne is drawn into a tense, intimate voyage through the Jovian system, where their volatile bond deepens amid danger. On Callisto, they discover a devastated camp and an SOS that suggests the threat is far stranger—and deadlier—than anyone imagined.