Dragon Harper

Del Rey Books

Written by Anne McCaffrey and Todd J. McCaffrey

Copyright 2007

In Dragon Harper, Harper apprentice Kindan has a forbidden love with a Lord Holder's daughter. After being banished for accidentally setting the records archive on fire - Kindan must deal with a planet wide plague and searches for a solution on how to stop it before the plague kills everyone on the planet Pern.

A continuation of the generation of dragon riders before the time of Lessa, this story of one of the most aggressive plagues of Pern's history is a pretty graphic depiction of a pandemic. It is very disconcerting as characters you have grown to appreciate in the book succumb to the pandemic flu. You relate to young Kindan as he rigorously struggles to take care of all the victims of the plague while he becomes known as the Healer. This is a wonderful writer's collaboration between Anne McCaffrey and her son Todd McCaffrey.

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