Synopsis: Jaguar Addams knows all about fear. On Planetoid Three, she works to establish an empathic link with the darkest criminal minds - forcing offenders to face the fears that drive them to their most desperate acts. Now, the controversial History of Empathic Acts is being considered as a course of university study. An anti-empathic faction opposes this decision, accusing empaths of being immoral mind readers out to bend others to their will. Posing as a professor, Jaguar must determine the agenda of this extremist movement - which may be involved in the disappearance of four students the year before. But her mission, and her abilities, have been discovered. Someone is telepathically invading Jaguar's mind - and stirring up her own long dormant fears... (from the back cover of the Ace Books first edition)