title: Rowan (The Tower & Hive Sequence)
author:  Anne McCaffrey 
description: "'One of the best McCaffrey novels to come along in years'" * Locus *
zlib_text: **The Rowan**
  
  by Anne McCaffrey
  
  The Talents were the elite of the Nine Star League.Their
  
  gifts were many and varied, ranging from the gentle telepathic,
  
  to the rare and extremely valued Primes. On the Primes rested the
  
  entire economic wealth and communications systems of the
  
  civilised worlds.But Primes were scarce-only very rarely was a
  
  new one born.And now on the planet Altair, in a smal mining
  
  colony on the western mountain range,a new Prime existed,
  
  a three year old girl-trapped in a giant mud slide that had wiped
  
  out the rest of the Rowan mining community.Every Altarian who
  
  was even mildly talented could 'hear' the child crying for help,
  
  but no one knew exactly where she was buried.
  
  Every resource on the planet was centred into finding 'The Rowan'
  
  the new Prime,the first ever to be born on Altair,an exceptionally
  
  unique Prime,more talented,more powerful,more agoraphobic,more
  
  lonely,than any other Prime yet known in the Nine Star League.
  
  Born on April 1st, Anne McCa