Forerunner Foray by Andre Norton

Book in very good condition, Dust Jacket in acceptable condition. Pages yellowed with age. Vintage, publish in 1973, Book Club edition. Hardcover with Damaged Dust Jacket.

Synopsis: Ziantha was a highly skilled sensitive who has been trained in many areas of mind-touch, but she was totally unprepared for her contact with the strange, throbbing green stone that took her out-of-body into the ancient Forerunner worlds of hidden treasure and wisdom.

Repelled, horrified by what she sensed was possible, still Ziantha was drawn inexorably to the stone and unwillingly found herself trapped in the past, in another's identity, with only the help of an unknown sensitive for guidance. Together they learn that the only way they can return to their true selves is by finding the lost mate of the focus stone. Pursued by vengeful enemies, trapped by the increasing physical weakness that threatens to overtake them, they discover the clue to the missing stone. Then Ziantha must face a harrowing transport even farther back into another identity and in a desperate race against time, struggle to save herself and her valiant male companion.

Once again Andre Norton succeeds in spinning a fabulous and absorbing story in which the past and future mingle, and time and the vastness of the universe are one.