Taking Control: Part Two in the Starchild Series

The Starchild Series is the adventure of Kaphri, a young Ly Kai girl who flees the tower of Kryie Karth, where she and the other refugees stranded by her Uncle's betrayal live in borderline starvation. Fearing her Birthstar destines her for evil, she vows never to use her star power and strikes out with her tiny dragon companion, Gemma, to find a new home on an alien world. When she is captured by three Geffitz warriors--a people she had no idea even existed--they demand that she use her star power to repair the damage done to their people by her evil uncle, Araxis. Though they are hostile and angry, she is quickly fascinated by them. After she escapes them, she discovers Arylla is not evil. But Araxis henchmen snatch her away and hold her for Araxis, who plans to steal her physical form and restore his power. Only someone as bold as a Geffitzi warrior would dare penetrate the Dark Tower and snatch the Evil One's prize. When she and Frax escape, they stir ancient powers better left sleeping in the darkness.

In Taking Control, Kaphri and her warrior companions have escaped Araxis, but now they are trapped on the southern side of the impenetrable wall of power Araxis erected to keep their people out of his planned kingdom. Frax, Uri and Tobin have come to accept her on a more trusted level. Along with two new Geffitzi warriors, Seuliac and Velacy, blood enemies of her own companions, they agree to help her get to the mysterious destination that a strange force is driving her to in exchange for her taking down the barrier that divides their world. But new powers are at work here. When they clash on the border of a massive swamp the Geffitzi call the Palenquemas, a new force is awakened. The Wyxa claim that a greater, more ancient evil than Araxis is at work, and they do not consider the Geffitzi allies worthy of joining the battle to defeat it.