A Mother's Love is a series of three stories by Richard Lobinske Alien Pond, Alien Home and Alien Heritage in which Daria, after a disasterous marriage to Tom Sloane and an equally bad relationship with Trent Lane, buys a remote Montana cabin to escape and write. When an spacecraft crashes, she adopts three alien children, heirs to an interstellar throne and victims of a rebellion.



New Characters

Daria's adopted daughters:

Original Characters:

  • Anatov, Col. Sergei, Russian flight leader
  • Autumnheart, Autumnblossom's daughter
  • Autumnsky , Trumind's daughter
  • Azurelake, pilot of Nebulachaser's lauch
  • Brighon, Emma, host of Newsmakers Tonight
  • Campbell, Jonathan, UN negotiator
  • Chambers, Assistant Director, traitor agent that attempted to betray Daria
  • Crystalblossom, Autumnblossom's daughter
  • Crystalheart, Folk intellgence officer and Autumnblossom's romantic interest
  • Duvall, Henry, Amy's son
  • Duvall, Martin, Amy's husband
  • Eaton, Capt. human copilot assigned to Nebulachaser's launch
  • Eveningblossom, Trumind's daughter
  • Grace, Dennis, current "Grace" of Grace, Sloane and Page
  • Grace, Ellison,founding partner of GS&P
  • Goodupholder, Autumnblossom's daughter, named for Daria
  • Honoredcreator, Eveningsky's daughter
  • Jones, Lt. Col. Nancy, US flight leader “Wallflower”
  • Lawton, FBI Agent, investigator who found the GS&P Nevada facility
  • Leafweaver, a rebel observer on Earth who agrees to negotiate with Truemind
  • Morningvillager, Eveningsky's daughter
  • Newharvest, captain of the Folk spaceship, Nebulachaser
  • Page, Oscar, founding partner of GS&P
  • Page, Xavier,current "Page" of Grace, Sloane and Page
  • Peacetree, a retired law advisor recruited for Daria's defense team
  • Phelps, Lydia, Sick, Sad World reporter who discovers the children's existance
  • O'Neal, Tim, an MIB-type agent who becomes Daria's romantic interest
  • Skyfollower, royal physician that informed the Traditionalists of the children's medical condition arising from using an artificial host
  • Sloane, Irving, Tom's great-great-grandfather and one of the founders of GS&P
  • Smith, Bruno, muscle for GS&P
  • Snowvine, former signal intelligence officer on Earth, used to pass on false information from GS&P about a Human/Seeker alliance to Truelimb
  • Streamrider, rebel sabeteur and attempted assassin
  • StoneFastCollector Tolerance, Seeker representative to negotiations
  • Summerleaf, Nebulachaser's doctor
  • Swiftsong, the children's guardian, who was fatally wounded during their initial escape
  • Sweetwind, a Nestheart Guard that took a bullet to protect Daria.
  • Truelimb, the children's biological mother and Queen before her abdication.
  • Truepeace, Trumind's daughter
  • Tolliver, Cmdr. Bill, Quinn's husband and naval aviator and CAG on the Carl Vinson
  • Tolliver, Daria Jane, Quinn's daughter.
  • Warmhearth, High Cleric of the Traditionalists
  • Winterglow, second Captain of the Nebulachaser
  • Wisesunlight, Eveningsky's daughter

Alternate Canon characters:

  • Jane Lane
  • Mack MacKenzie
  • Quinn-Morgendorffer-Tolliver
  • Artie Simmons
  • Tom Sloane