title: Cloud's Rider
author:  C. J. Cherryh 
description: It is the second of a series of two novels written by Cherryh and is set in the author's Finisterre universe. The first book in the series, Rider at the Gate was published in August 1995. The series is about the descendants of lost colonists stranded many generations ago on the hostile planet of Finisterre. Fisher and Cloud escort the Goss children halfway up Rogers Peak to Evergreen village with Harper's riderless nighthorse, Spook, in pursuit. Fisher tells the local riders about the fall of Tarmin village and the presence of Spook, but does not reveal the arrest of the Goss brothers nor the role Brionne played in Tarmin's demise. Fisher is lodged in the rider camp, the unconscious Brionne with Darcey Schaffer, the village doctor, and Carlo and Randy with Van Mackey, the village blacksmith. The news of Tarmin's fall is devastating to Evergreen because all its supplies come from there, but many of the villagers see the disaster as an opportunity to seize and occupy the vacant property in Tarmin village in the spring.
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   **Cloud’s Rider**
  
  _**C. J. Cherryh**_
  
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  NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY
  
  Hodder and Stoughton
  
  Copyright © 1996 by C. J. Cherryh
  
  First published in Great Britain in 1997 by Hodder and Stoughton First
  published in paperback in 1997
  
  by Hodder and Stoughton A division of Hodder Headline PLC
  
  A New English Library paperback
  
  The right of C. J. Cherryh to be identified as the Author of the Work has been
  asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act
  1988.
  
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