Journey across the wide reaches of space with roving diplomat Gerard Manley and his sentient starship Windhover, into danger and adventure on a half-dozen far-flung alien worlds. wildly imaginative and witty picaresque and poignant.

An Image of Voices is the frist in a spellbinding new series of a man on a pilgrimage in search of himself.

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LIfe is rarely boring for Federation ambassador-at-large Gerard Manley. Whether he's negotiating a tricky treaty on a planet inhabited by ghosts, losing his heart to a passionate Sylvan beauty, or nearly losing his life in a brutal attack on a starbase, he finds more excitement than most men do in a dozen lifetimes.

But Gerard Manley is also a haunted man, driven by dreams of a half-remembered past as Consort to Fair\iy Peg, ruler of the Ribble Galaxy, and obsessed with the origins of the "Tenderfoot" Legend, an ancient cosmic myth with uncanny parallels to his own life.

With the aid of "Windy," the starship Windhover which serves him as confidante, confessor and comrade-in-arms,  Manley sets out to unravel the intricate mysteries of his past.