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Rihannsu, Book 2: The Romulan Way

Trapped behind the Neutral Zone—in the heart of the Romulan Empire!

• Stardate Unknown
• Released August 1987

They are a race of warriors, a noble people to whom honor is all. They are cousin to the Vulcan, ally to the Klingon, and Starfleet‘s most feared and cunning adversary. They are the Romulans, and for eight years, Federation Agent Terise LoBrutto has hidden in their midst.

Now the presence of a captured Starfleet officer forces her to make a fateful choice between exposure and the chance to escape: maintain her cover—or save the life of Dr. Leonard McCoy?

Written by: Diane Duane and Peter Morwood

Cast:

• Admiral James T. Kirk
• Commander Spock
• Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy
• Commander Montgomery Scott
• Lieutenant Commander Hikaru Sulu
• Lieutenant Commander Nyota Uhura
• Lieutenant Pavel Chekov

Guest Cast:

• Terise LoBrutto
• Commander Ael t’Rllaillieu

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Excerpt

“I can tell you who I am, sir,” the man said angrily.

Arrhae broke out all over in cold sweat at the sound of him. She was not wearing a translator, and he spoke Federation Standard, and she understood him. Not that this should have been strange, of course. Arrhae’s composure began to shatter, and she kept walking, steadily, to be well out of sight before it should do so completely.

“I’m Doctor Leonard E. McCoy,” he said, and O Elements, it was a native Terran accent, from somewhere in the south of EnnAy, probably Florida or Georgia. Arrhae made herself keep walking, without reaction, without any slightest reaction to the language she had not heard from another being for eight years, and had stopped hearing even in her dreams.

“I’m a Commander in the United Federation of Planets’ Starfleet—and what your people have done is a damned act of war!”