Book 10, and final novel in the Star Doc Series.

Since Viehl penned Star Doc back in 2000, readers have enjoyed the clever twists and turns in the life of Dr. Cherijo Torin set on worlds with many of the same issues in our current time expanded onto the broader canvas of a universe populated with several sentient species and their cultures, some closer to human than others.

In A DREAM CALLED TIME, Cherijo has returned to herself after a 5 year absence. While her personality was in hiatus, her life, including the relationship with her husband and daughter, was lived by a stranger. For her, only a night has passed, but she finds a different look in the eyes of her loved ones. Her personal problems need to be put aside when a new danger involving a form of the virulent sentient crystal appears at the mouth of a nexus in space that leads to a time far into the past, before life was seeded on the worlds she knows today. Can she fulfill the function she was built for and save the lives of this timeline? What sacrifices will she be asked to make in order to set things right?

It is always difficult to end a series, perhaps especially when the ensemble of characters and their issues are written so vividly, but Viehl does an outstanding job of tying the books' storylines together in a conclusion spanning both space and time.