The fresco
The bizarre events that have been occurring across the United States-unexplained "oddities" tracked by Air Defense, mysterious disappearances, shocking deaths-seem to have no bearing on Benita Alvarez-Shipton's life. That is, until the soft-spoken thirty-six year-old bookstore manager is approached by a pair of aliens who request that she transmit a "message of peace" to the powers-that-be in Washington, D.C. Suddenly an ordinary woman with a poor self-image and low self-esteem has been thrust into the limelight as she leaves behind an unhappy home and marriage to undertake a mission of utmost importance.But this adventure is more perilous and important than Benita can imagine. For the alien envoys have come with a dire warning about another extraterrestrial race: predators whose attention is focussed on Earth-and who may have already made their first "visit."
Fiction, Science Fiction, Women, Fiction, science fiction, general, Human-alien encounters
Sheri S. Tepper
Sheri Stewart Tepper was an American writer of science fiction, horror and mystery novels. She is known for feminist science fiction, often with an ecofeminist slant. -Wikipedia

She also wrote murder mysteries under the pen names of [B.J. Oliphant][1] and [A. J. Orde][2], and a horror novel under [E.E. Horlak][3]


  [1]: https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2724905A/B.J._Oliphant
  [2]: https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL768769A/A._J._Orde
  [3]: https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2787259A/E.E._Horlak