Tegan Varley, top saleswoman for an off-world appliances and electronics conglomerate, is going to be the first Human allowed to attend the Intergalactic Technology Trade Show on the isolationist planet, Sayakim. Her plans literally crash and burn when Tegan's shuttle makes a crater near the site where she is supposed to meet the Trade Commissioner, Fendera Shularin. Fendera, a member of a species who can heal by touch, saves Tegan's life, but with...