Alfred A. Knopf 1994. Half cloth with dust jacket, 463 pp
Earth is finally part of the Galactic Milieu. But the next step is to
achieve Unity with other galactic races. To attain this higher state, we
must gather sufficient numbers of the metapsychically talented.
However, a rebel group want to keep Earth forever separate. And their
covert supporter is Fury, an unstable metapsychic entity with its own
ruthless plans for humanity. Fury's greatest threat now is Jack the
Bodiless, whose power it craves. But Jack won't be used. So the
entity turns to Dorothea Macdonald, a young woman who's been hiding her
great powers from the Milieu's best mind-readers. Yet she can't keep
them from Fury - or Jack. She rejects their advances, suspicious of
megalomaniacal dreams and galactic politics. But when Jack's brother
Marc puts his schemes ahead of saving millions of lives, Jack needs her.
Because ultimately no one - even the Galactic Milieu - can match the
powers of the girl they'll call Diamond Mask.