Festival Moon - Merovingen Nights, Bk 1 Author:C. J. Cherryh Merovin, the world that C.J. Cherryh built, a low-tech, inhospitable planet where the human survivors of a colony nearly destroyed by an enigmatic alien race still dwell, salvaging what they can, while awaiting the return of the alien menace or rediscovery by the Terrans who abandoned them in their long-ago time of terror. — So welcome now to Fes... more »tival Moon, the first volume of Merovingen Nights tales. And join C.J. Cherryh, Robert Asprin, Lynn Abbey, Janet and Chris Morris, Leslie Fish, Mercedes Lackey, and Nancy Asire as they set their own characters loose to pole the dark waterways and prowl the high bridges, form unexpected alliances, fight battles for survival and mastery, and pit their cunning and quickness against one another and against the many perils of that most dangerous and intricate of cities -- Merovingen.« less