Mother's Love
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