Irsud — Jo Clayton

DIADEM HELD CAPTIVE!

Sold into slavery to an insectoid race, Aleytys had been chosen as proxy-mother to the old Queen's successor. In short, like an Earth wasp's prey, she would be both bearer and food for that which was to come.

Had Aleytys been any other human, this would have been the end. But she was the wearer of the Diadem, that creation of galactic science that linked her nervous system to powers of strange potency And for Aleytys and the Queen the fateful conflict was about to begin!