"The First Protector"
Landing on the warring clans of the Irish hills, the Taelon scientist Ma'el is in mortal danger until he meets a young warrior who will lay down his life for this mysterious stranger and a druid priestess with uncanny insight. Together with the alien, they set out on a journey that will take them around the plant and to a destinay greater than the human race can possibly imagine.

For Ma'el has come to judge Earth, and their travels will have consequences far into the future - consequences that will change both humanity and the Taelon race forever...
By James White

"Arrival"
"People of Earth, we are the Companions...People of Earth, we are here to help"

The Taelons have arrived from beyond the stars on a mission of peace, to help humanity claim its destiny. Working at first to ensure peaceful relations between the human race and the newly landed aliens, Doors also hopes to find something in the aliens technology that will free his wife from the grip of a terrible disease. But there is a dark shadow behind the Taelon's promises and when it is revealed to Jonathon Doors, he will discover the true price of a cure and the extent of the Taelons' dark plans for Earth, and mankind...
By Fred Saberhagen

"Requiem For Boone"
Army special forces major Will Boone encounters the Companions while contacting a missing special forces team during the Sino-Indian War. Returning to the U.S., he is quickly separated from the army to become a Denver police officer, and Kate, an accomplished computer expert, leaves her secret post to join him. It is just as well that they are together, for Boone's job is actually that of a double agent. He is to force into the open a resistance organization bent on creating hostility to the Companions, so a conspiratorial clique in the government can move to suppress them. The clique then means to manipulate the Companions to establish its members as the dictatorial rulers of North America.
By Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald

"Augur's Teacher"
Cecilia Robin, a southern California fourth-grade teacher, has reason to worry when the alien Taelons take an interest in her. After all, the Taelons have a habit of implanting CVIs, devices that bring about disturbing behavioral changes, in the base of the neck of uncooperative humans. Not one to make trouble, Cece refuses a former student's request to join a splinter group of the Resistance and take part in an assassination attempt. Soon she's both a target for the rebels and the Taelons, and is on the run. Enter the resourceful Augur to protect her, but even he can't tell her who used computer networks to vaporize her car. In their flight across the country, Cece and Augur discover that the Taelons are aware of the assassination attempt, awaiting an excuse to expand and make acceptable the implantation of CVIs in college students.
By Sherwood Smith

"Heritage"
Liam Kincaid walks a dangerous tightrope. While he serves as Protector of the enigmatic Taelon Companion, Da'an, secretly he also heads the human Resistance, Earth's only hope against the aliens. With deception and danger a constant, it doesn't seem life could get any harder-until the Taelons' Synod leader, Zo'or, releases a virus among the human populace that infects thousands. Yet Zo'or intends something even more sinister than genocide, forcing Liam and the Resistance to find a cure before many people die and Zo'or's ultimate plan can fully unfold. What Liam doesn't realize is that to end the suffering, he'll have to delve into his alien past. But it'll take great courage to explore so deeply the deadly secrets of his mysterious alien Heritage.
By Doranna Durgin

"Legacy"
Waneta Young, a woman of Cherokee descent, finds a mysterious red crystal lodged in a piece of pottery discovered at an archaeological dig. This red crystal contains a centuries-old destructive force guarded by tribal shamans against those who might misuse its terrible power. When the Taelons discover the crystal, Zo'or is determined to wrest its power from its Native American guardians. Liam Kincaid and Renee Palmer find themselves caught in a desperate struggle between humans and Taelons, who would resurrect a creature only, the power of Cherokee legend can hold at bay. When the terrible power is unleashed, humans and Taelons discover a danger that threatens to end all life. A danger that seemingly cannot be stopped.
By Glen R. Sixbury