To the High Redoubt Author:Chelsea Quinn Yarbro A beautiful psychic slave and a practical young soldier of fortune form an alliance that takes them across the galaxy to challenge the evil power of the Bundhi. While not a Saint Germain novel, this has some of the same themes: how to act rationally in an irrational time, honor, alchemy, being an outsider. Its primary characters are a discharged... more » Polish army captain, Arkady, who was fighting the Turks in 1524 who buys a beautiful blind Indian-Tibetan-Chinese slave, Suratta, who is able to fight her enemies in shared visions during tantric sex. They travel from Hungary to Kyrgyztan and perhaps into China to battle the bad guy who took her sight, killed her family, and wants to plunge the world into darkness. It's a good vs. evil quest book, but it's more and better too.« less