Unity (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)

In 2001s critically acclaimed Avatar novels author S.D. Perry set the tone and the course for the continuation of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine a controversial television phenomenon hailed by TV Guide as "the best acted written produced and altogether finest" incarnation of Star Trek. Since then the DS9 saga has grown in complexity and momentum attracting an ever-growing audience to novels about which one reviewer raved "In these pages DS9 truly lives again." Now following her triumphs with Avatar and Rising Son S. D. Perry returns for a landmark tale celebrating DS9s tenth anniversary year. On the eve of Bajors formal entry into the Federation First Minister Shakaar was assassinated derailing the induction and plunging the planet and station Deep Space 9? into chaos. Investigation into the murder revealed the presence of a parasitic conspiracy threatening not only Bajors future with the Federation but the very survival of both. At the same time the fracturing of Bajors theology has put its people on the threshold of a startling transformation -- and the consequences now rest on the shoulders of Colonel Kira Nerys who months ago defied the religious authority of her planet by making public an ancient heretical text that challenged the very foundation of the Bajoran faith. Now after a harrowing and historic voyage of exploration in the Gamma Quadrant the weary wounded crew of Starship Defiant is at last coming home. But the joy of their return is short-lived as the crew becomes swept up in the crisis aboard the station with many of them confronting personal issues that force them to make life-altering choices. Among those is a grief-stricken Commander Elias Vaughn who reaches a crossroads in his lifes journey and learns the true purpose for which he was Touched by the Prophets...as well as the ultimate fate of Captain Benjamin Sisko. And...somewhere on Bajor...a child long awaited is about to be born.