Mistwalker (Discovery)

"Quite and adventure tale, a love story, and a damned good ecological drama!" ANNE McCAFFREY The jungles of the planet Ver Day were unforgiving to natives--and death for offworlders. Sled-hauler Sal banks didn't like to have to depend on anyone or anything, but she needed extra muscle to pull a sled on her next cargo run, so she hired Meesha Raschad first and found out he was an offworlder second. Then she was stuck with a heavy cargo load, a late start, and a dangerously inexperienced newbie for a partner. Meanwhile, the govies were trying to make them forfeit the run, for no reason Sal could fdigure. But it had something to do with Raschad--who pulled hard and kept his troubles to himself. Which would have worked fine, except that those troubles soon followed him to the dangers of isolated Tumble Town....Denise Lopes Heald is the author of 'Mistwalker (Discovery)', published 1994 under ISBN 9780345388902 and ISBN 0345388909.