Blurb

Born deaf and blind, Renata becomes an emissary to an eyeless, earless race of subterranean spiders.

Summary

Deaf and blind from birth, Renata discovers that she shares a lingua franca with an alien race of subterranean spiders: vibrations. With highly evolved spinnerets and versatile leg-tools, the Webbers use their mastery of web-spinning to construct cities and communication networks out of pure silk. Now, for the first time, they are building a cable to the planet's surface where Renata and her crewmates are ready to make first contact. But has she arrived only in time to discover that they are already at war?