Ebony & Ivory - Tazia — Sue Perkins

Tazia is petrified of her first night with Duke Robard, her new husband by an arranged marriage, because her father's mistress has told her alarming tales of what he will do. Robard is patient with her but their union remains unconsummated. They learn to work together, but intimacy evades them.A strange illness begins to decimate the ghostlike Eos, decimating their  already small numbers. Tazia and Robard work together and put their personal problems aside while they help the Eos avoid extinction.The Eos discover their recent visitors were not from the other known tribes and research points to a lost tribe in the Pator area. Tazia and Robard set out on a journey of discovery to find the lost ones. Without the Eos the planet will die and this will mean the end of humanity on Hejmen.