Singing the Dogstar Blues

Set in a future Australia, the novel follows Joss, an eighteen-year-old woman whose mother is a famous newscaster, as she becomes the time-traveling partner of Mavkel, a hermaphrodite alien from the planet Choria. Together, they navigate various challenges including encounters with an assassin and confrontation with an anti-alien lobbyists. When Mavkel becomes ill, pining for his lost twin and losing his will to live, Joss must help him find the will to survive.