(grin) Katherine, when have I ever picked up a trope I didn’t subvert in short order? Leave this with me. :) (I mean, think of the end of THE DOOR INTO SUNSET, huh?...)

:) Thanks. (A bit delayed on the response... sorry about that! I don’t get in here as often as I should.)

I honor your commitment. :) —DD

Katharine — So glad you’ve enjoyed the series so much. Thanks very kindly for this! :) —DD

KTB, it’s kind of you to think of me in this regard, but Metamorphosis and its sequels aren’t my books: they’re Jean Lorrah’s. My linked Trek works were the Rihannsu sequence beginning with My Enemy, My Ally and ending in The Empty Chair.

Kshcang, I'm sorry, but "Enemy/Ally" is indeed the first of the Rihannsu books: later books were of no one's invention but mine. There was a long gap between the first two books and the remaining ones due to weird life events (marriage, for one: "Romulan Way" was written my honeymoon with my cowriter, Peter Morwood)…