Bren Cameron, a human living in exile on the island of Mospheira, seeks a new way to develop a deeper understanding between the human community and the society of atevi--two dangerous, intelligent, and possibly incompatible species.

Cajeiri is the young son of the powerful leader of the Western Associationand he has become a target for forces bent on destroying his fathers rule. For Cajeiri is the first ateva youth to have lived in a human environment. And after hundreds of years of fragile atevi-human coexistence, he may very well be the first of his people to ever truly understand the so similaryet so dangerously differentaliens who share his...

In the aftermath of civil war, the world of the atevi is still perilously unstable. Tabini-aiji, powerful ruler of the Western Association, along with his son and heir, and his human paidhi, Bren Cameron, have returned to the Bu-javid, their seat of power. The usurper, Murini has escaped to the lands of his supporters, but the danger these rebels pose is far from over. The world of the atevi has fragmented into two antagonistic political camps: the...

The civil war among the alien atevi is over-- but peace and tranquility are not in the cards for Bren. Cajeiri, the young son of Tabini-aiai, the ruler, slips away from his bodyguards for an adventure. When rebel clans attack, Bren's pastoral retreat becomes a locked-down fortress.

"Convergence marks a new phase in the Foreigner Universe: knowledge about the dangerous situation in adjacent space rests only with Bren Cameron, the human diplomat to the alien court of the atevi, four starship captains, and the two chiefs of state—both the human and the atevi, who share the planet. Bren is obliged to carry the just-signed treaty to the human government on an island some forty miles off the shores of the atevi-ruled megacontinent,...

The 14th novel in a long-running odyssey, following INTRUDER. It's Cajeiri's 8th birthday and he's been promised a visit from the human children he knew from his interstellar voyage. But a major split is compromising the Assassins' Guild, which furnishes security and law enforcement to the whole continent. It's Bren's responsibility to let a lonely little prince re-establish his controversial relationship with the only other children he's ever met...

Exhausted from a two-year rescue mission to a distant sector of space, and with resources strained by four thousand extra mouths to feed, the crew of the starship Phoenix yearns for the luxuries of home. But when the ship makes the final jump into atevi space, they learn the worst: supplies to their home station have been cut off; civil war has broken out on the atevi mainland; the powerful Western Association has been overthrown; and Tabini-aiji...

Diplomat Bren Cameron finds the fate of the world resting on his shoulders when he is sent into space to negotiate on behalf of the atevi race in an attempt to gain control of a long-abandoned human space station without sparking a deadly inter-species war.

With the Assassins' Guild functioning again after a year of upheaval and rebellion, Bren Cameron takes a position on the court to champion a trade agreement, but tranquility in the atevi world is transient.

Cajeiri must protect the young human guests on his starship after the Assassins Guild invades the house of his great-uncle and kills his grandfather.