Rider at the Gate

Blurb

Rider at the Gate is a science fiction novel written by United States science fiction and fantasy author C. J. Cherryh, and was first published by Warner Books in August 1995. It is the first of a series of two novels written by Cherryh and is set in the author's Finisterre universe. The second book in the series, Cloud's Rider was published in September 1996. The series is about the descendants of lost colonists stranded many generations ago on the hostile planet of Finisterre.