Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

"Monica Banks is a workaholic. There's no room in her life for home, family, or love. Until on snowy night when a ghost from Christmas past - a spirit named Ebenezer Scrooge - appears to take her on a journey through her own life to teach her that it's never to late to let the joy of the season into our heart..."--BOOK JACKET.

"Yanaba Maddock's short-lived career as a company spy had ended the moment the planet Petaybee and its people had adopted her as one of their own. Now she was dedicated to keeping Intergal from exploiting and wounding--or even killing--the world she had come to love. For Intergal persisted in denying that Petaybee was sentient, and nothing would stop it from stripping the ore-rich planet--sentient or not. Only solid evidence would convince the company...

Acorna looks forward to rebuilding her home world with her newly returned life-mate Aari, but something seems very wrong with Aari's behavior.

Acorn's people, the Linyaari, have started to reclaim their homeworld from the ravages of the brutal alien Khleevi. But the expedition has unlocked a larger mystery about the origins of the Linyaari poeple--one that led Aari, Acorn's beloved lifemate into a dangerous journey through time and space-A journey from which Aari may never return.--Book Jacket

Beloved by millions of readers, Anne McCaffrey is one of science fiction's favorite authors. Writing with award-winning author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, she has created the bestselling Acorna series focusing on the adventures of the brave unicorn girl. Now the exciting saga of the next generation begins. First WarningKhorii, daughter of the near-mythic Acorna and her lifemate, Aari, must contend with an overwhelming legacy to forge a path of her...

Strange things were happening on the icy planet called Petaybee. Unauthorized genetically engineered species had been spotted, while some people were simply disappearing. None of the locals were talking to the company, so the company sent disabled combat veteran Yanaba Maddock to spy. But a strange thing happened. With her relocation to the arctic planet came a return of Yana's health and strength. And the more she got to know the people of Petaybee,...

A feeling planet organizes its defenses against uncaring humans. The planet, which can even speak, is home to some ecologically minded people, but its riches are attracting hordes of outsiders with no feeling for nature. Planet and residents join forces.

Accompanied by her android "brother," Khorii, the rebellious daughter of the legendary Acorna and her lifemate, Aari, searches for the cause of a mysterious and deadly plague before those responsible use it to cripple an entire star system.

Searching fro her belovid, Acorna makes an even more astonishing discovery; the remains of a subterranean world that beloned to the legendary Friends - a technologically advanced society that populated Vhiliinyar before the time of the Ancestors. Once again Acorna begins a quest that wll take her deep into the realms of limitless space to find the origins of her people.