Founding of the Commonwealth Books in Order

A restless Thranx poet seeking inspiration encounters a small-time human criminal hoping to get rich. Their unlikely partnership develops while both species struggle to overcome mutual revulsion, threatening established assumptions about whether they can share a future.

Humanity welcomes the beautiful Pitar while relations with the insectlike Thranx remain uneasy. When an entire human colony is slaughtered, a faint signal offers the only lead to the killers and threatens to reshape relations among all three species.

Human and Thranx idealists organize a cross-species fair despite persistent distrust between their peoples. Diplomat Fanielle Anjou must outwit extremists planning violence, while a distant archaeological discovery could complicate the fragile path toward an alliance.