First book of the Wine of the GodsGenetic engineering. First they cured the genetic diseases. Then they selected for the best natural traits. Then they made completely artificial genes. As the test children reached puberty, abilities that had always been lost in the random background noise were suddenly obvious. Telepathy, telekinesis. At first their creators sought to strengthen these traits. Then they began to fear them. They called them gods, and made them slaves. Wolfgang Oldham was sixteen when the company laid claim to him. He escaped, and stayed free for three years. When he was arrested, identified and returned to the company, they trained him to be useful. They didn't realize that they were training him to be dangerous

She saved a world, but not perfectly, not everyone. Drained of her magic, exhausted, she could not block out the screams of the injured and dying. She could only flee through a dimensional gate to an unknown world. A town that accepted her. A town that needed all of her limping, injured, magic to save them when they came under attack.

Twenty-sixth story in the Wine of the Gods Universe. A novel of crossdimensional diplomacy. Captain Xen Wolfson of the King Own is a powerful wizard and an accomplished spy. But can he pull off a diplomatic coup and get the Earth and the Empire of the One to talk instead of fight? And whatever his hopes of stopping another war across the dimensions, it looks like he's also going to have to stop a crossdimensional criminal gang.