These books are about an intelligent cat race. Occasionally females are born with a special talent that allow them to manipulate what seem to be ghosts around her to effect the real world. When a Female is found with the ability she is usually sent off or taken off to a convent or monastery or religious retreat (whatever) to help her learn how to use this talent. When a Male is found with this ability he is almost always immediately killed because it is considered blasphemy for a Male to have the ability.
A description of the talent... The female (or male) can see or sense a type of ghost like thing that is unseen or sensed by anyone without the talent. These ghosts can be manipulated by the talented to effect the physical world around them. The bigger it is the more if can be used for. The main character can manipulate the very large ghosts things she can see when she looks up where most don't look
The main character is a young Female who discovers she has this ability but she lives way up in the mountains and has no idea what it is she can do. It turns out one of her litter mates, Male, also has this ability but the 2 of them are close so neither tell anyone about their abilities. One day an Older female comes and sees the younger one has this talent and also sees the male litter-mate also has it. She kills (or so we think) the male and takes the female off to be trained.
When the young female gets to the place of training she learns a few things about the world that she hadn't known before because her family lived so far up into the wilderness and was mostly cut off from the rest of the world. The first thing she learns is of course what is it she can do and how to control her ability. She also learns that the Males usually are in charge of Technology while the Females are in charge of the government because of thier abilities and because most of the world is run by the females anyway.
It turns out that the young female has a stronger talent than any other who has ever come before and is actually spoken of in a prophesy (yea yea i know, sounds hokey but was well done). Anyway after she had been training for a while she ends up defeating an attack by Males who are in tanks by using stronger more powerful "ghosts" (cant remember what they called them) and thereby showing her teachers that she was pretty much beyond their teaching. The teachers send her off to a different enclave of Females for higher learning in her abilities and she discovers that there has been a long time war between Males who do not want to be ruled by the Females and who have use of pretty high tech technology and the Females in charge of the sisterhood type thing who have this powerful ability.
Anyway it turns out in the end that the young female's litter-mate who also had the power didn't die (can't remember why not) and somehow ends up on the side of the Males in charge of the technology. Having the same abilities as his sister means he can defend against her and the female's powers and that pretty much turns the tide of the war to the Male's favor.
I don't remember much of the rest of the story. If anyone has ANY idea what series this is or even an idea of an author I would be HUGELY grateful. There were 3 books in the series.
It is not any of the following...
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Star Ka'at
Haydn of Mars
Sebastian of Mars
Queen of Mars
Behold the Eyes of Light, or any of that series
none of The Catfantastic Series
The Golden Cats
Decision at Doona nor Crisis at Doona
A description of the talent... The female (or male) can see or sense a type of ghost like thing that is unseen or sensed by anyone without the talent. These ghosts can be manipulated by the talented to effect the physical world around them. The bigger it is the more if can be used for. The main character can manipulate the very large ghosts things she can see when she looks up where most don't look
The main character is a young Female who discovers she has this ability but she lives way up in the mountains and has no idea what it is she can do. It turns out one of her litter mates, Male, also has this ability but the 2 of them are close so neither tell anyone about their abilities. One day an Older female comes and sees the younger one has this talent and also sees the male litter-mate also has it. She kills (or so we think) the male and takes the female off to be trained.
When the young female gets to the place of training she learns a few things about the world that she hadn't known before because her family lived so far up into the wilderness and was mostly cut off from the rest of the world. The first thing she learns is of course what is it she can do and how to control her ability. She also learns that the Males usually are in charge of Technology while the Females are in charge of the government because of thier abilities and because most of the world is run by the females anyway.
It turns out that the young female has a stronger talent than any other who has ever come before and is actually spoken of in a prophesy (yea yea i know, sounds hokey but was well done). Anyway after she had been training for a while she ends up defeating an attack by Males who are in tanks by using stronger more powerful "ghosts" (cant remember what they called them) and thereby showing her teachers that she was pretty much beyond their teaching. The teachers send her off to a different enclave of Females for higher learning in her abilities and she discovers that there has been a long time war between Males who do not want to be ruled by the Females and who have use of pretty high tech technology and the Females in charge of the sisterhood type thing who have this powerful ability.
Anyway it turns out in the end that the young female's litter-mate who also had the power didn't die (can't remember why not) and somehow ends up on the side of the Males in charge of the technology. Having the same abilities as his sister means he can defend against her and the female's powers and that pretty much turns the tide of the war to the Male's favor.
I don't remember much of the rest of the story. If anyone has ANY idea what series this is or even an idea of an author I would be HUGELY grateful. There were 3 books in the series.
It is not any of the following...
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Star Ka'at
Haydn of Mars
Sebastian of Mars
Queen of Mars
Behold the Eyes of Light, or any of that series
none of The Catfantastic Series
The Golden Cats
Decision at Doona nor Crisis at Doona
