Revised Synopsis of the Silver Hawk

Mikael and his twin sister Maat graduated from college over a thousand years ago and still havn't been promoted from their mission observing human social evolution in a rather dull corner of V-Sector. At their age, their mother was already exploring the universe and making significant contributions to the Great Narain Database. All Mikael needs is one big discovery and he knows the Scientific Advisory Board will sit up and notice him. But when an unidentified alien life-form enters the human princess Juliana moments after her birth, the twins begin an investigation that will change everything they thought to be true about their people and their place in the universe.

Affairs on the planet below, meanwhile, are turbulent. Tyria is ruled by women who worship the Maat. Out in the Desert, a scattering of male magicians worship Mikael and are plotting their return to power. Within Tyria, a secret society known as the Guild hopes to recreate the harmony described in the ancient forbidden scrolls - a time when both Mikael and Maat were worshipped equally and men and women lived in peace.

The princess Juliana is the last of her bloodline, heir to the throne of Tyria. Every one of these factions wants a hand in her future. The Order of Priestesses provide Andrea, a spiritual guardian and surrogate mother for the princess. The Desert builds their army, ready to attack when she is most vulnerable, and the Guild send Tasya, disguised as a handmaiden, to serve the princess and open her mind to the road of peace.

But Tasya is only a child when she arrives in the palace. Alone and haunted by the memory of her mother's murder and her twin brother's abduction by the priestesses, she does her best to fulfill her mission and befriend Juliana, but her mind is never far from her brother's plight. The priestesses think that experimenting the few boys born with magic inside Tyria's borders will aid in the war effort against the Desert Magcians and for Tynan, his telepathic link with Tasya is his only escape from the pain. Tasya promises she will use her influence with the princess to help him escape, somehow, but his time and sanity are wearing thin.

As Tyria barrels towards a three way civil war, both Maat and Mikael are drawn in and find themselves caring enough to begin to question the Board's rules about non-interferance.