Freedom

Freedom's Landing (1995) .
	"When the Catteni ships descended on Earth it was one of the most terrifying experiences humankind had ever known. Kris Bjornsen, along with thousands of others, found herself herded by forcewhips into the holds of giant spaceships to be transported to the slave compounds of an alien planet. And even then it wasn't over. For, after a partially successful escape attempt, Kris was once more shipped across space - to an apparently empty and untamed planet. The Catteni just dumped an assorted load of humans and aliens on the strange world and left them to see what would happen. Brilliantly, the refugees began to organize themselves into a pattern of survival. The planet was eerie, and not as empty as it seemed. For someone - something - had built giant storage barns - the planet was being used as a huge larder - for an entity they could not comprehend. As Kris and her patrol set out to explore the enigmatic world she had yet another problem to contend with - the presence of Zainal, the high-ranking patrician Catteni who had been abandoned with the rest of them. Zainal was strong, brilliant, and... kind, and Kris was puzzled by his presence, his personality, and above all by the tenuous tie she felt towards this man - who was not a man but one of the hated Catteni."

Freedom's Choice (1997) .
	"They had called the planet Botany, after the old penal colony on Earth. For that is what they were - prisoners and dissidents from other worlds whom the hated Catteni had banished to an empty planet - or what they thought was an empty planet. Kris Bjornsen and her fellow slaves had survived very well - and one reason was that among their number was Zainal, a high-ranked Catteni who was as trapped on Botany as they were. Zainal knew the Catteni ways and the Catteni technology, and he had plans for fighting back. For, as he explained, the Catteni too were victims - subject to the mighty and terrifying Eosi race, who used the Catteni ad a galactic police force - and also used them in more grisly and horrifying ways. And over Zainal's daring and secret plans, over the surveying expeditions and the exploration of the strange hidden valleys, hung a further mystery - to whom did Botany really belong? Who had created the giant grain sheds - the mammoth machinery that tilled the great fields? The new inhabitants of Botany called them the 'Farmers' - and waited for the day they would come to harvest their crops. And when that happened, the refugees were awed into silence - for the Farmers were greater than anything the universe had ever seen."

Freedom's Challenge (1998) .
	"The inhabitants of Botany - a mixture of humans and extra terrestrials - have managed to build a thriving and productive world out of what was originally intended as a slave planet. And now they have plans to overthrow the terrible Eosi, who for centuries have existed by subsuming members of the Catteni race, living in their bodies and ruling space through them. The Botanists have received mysterious and unexpected help from the beings they know only as 'Farmers' - for the Farmers have thrown a huge impervious space bubble round Botany. Even as the Eosi ships have tried to pulverize the rebellious planet, the bubble has held firm. But, safe as they are behind the protective device, Kris Bjornsen, Zainal and all of the Council know they have to go out and destroy the Eosi on their own ground. It falls to Zanial to risk his life in a desperate and daring mission to vanquish the monster life forms forever."

Freedom's Ransom (2002) .
	"The inhabitants of the penal planet Botany had fought a grim and dangerous war to free themselves from their Eosi overlords. Now the Eosi were gone, and both Botany and Earth were free again - but in serious trouble as the theft of all their communications satellites by the Catteni (working for their Eosi masters) had left them isolated and in a desperate situation. Hoping that everything that had been stolen would be returned, they found that Catteni greed had triumphed. The merchants of Barevi refused to give up the stolen goods unless a substantial ransom was paid. Earth was in a particularly bad way: disease, vandalism, starvation and the breakdown of their mechanical world had left its people fighting for survival. They desperately needed the goods the Barevi were hoarding. And so Zanial, Kris and a courageous team from Botany set off to try and outwit the thieving merchants. But their expedition led to a horrifying replay of an old nightmare for Kris - and only Zanial could save her and the future of both Earth and Botany."

Omnibus

The Book of Freedoms (2001) .
	"The unthinkable has happened--Earth has been conquered, and humanity enslaved on alien worlds. The question is, can the captives survive long enough to fight back? The Book of Freedoms: Includes Freedom's Landing, Freedom's Choice and Freedom's Challenge The Catten conquerors swooped down on an unsuspecting Earth as they had on many another world. Striking fifty cities around the globe, they carried off countless human slaves to be sent to the next planet slated for colonization - expendable trailblazers in the expansion of their empire. Kris Bjornses was one of a number of deportees from other worlds who were dumped on a namelass planet with limited supplies and no information about how to survive in an alien environment. She and her fellow "colonists" all might have perished that first day, had it not been for Zainal, a renegade Catteni exiled by his own people. With Zainal's help, the colonists learned to thrive on the world they named Botany. But they soon discovered they weren't its first inhabitants. The world was occupied by machines left behind by Botany's true owners - machines that could be converted to human needs. But who were alien "Farmers" and would they aid the colonists in their quest for freedom? Zainal was impatient to find out. He knew the Catteni were merely the tools of the Eosi, an even more powerful species that had achieved virtual immortality by taking over the minds and bodies of its subject races. It was crucial that the Farmers help the colonists win against the Catteni conquerors, but afterwards, would the Botanist be prepared to help liberate the people of Earth and Catten as well?"