Imposter — Valerie J. Freireich

STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND

Marcer Brice, an academic researcher in the Polite Harmony of Worlds, is an Altered Human, possessing an echo-locating ability that makes him the subject of suspicion and fear. But he never expected to be banished to the unknown enemy worlds of the Emirates simply for the crime of being different.

Here he finds a culture of fanatics, where cruel, beautiful women known as Houris are worshipped like angels, while their male offspring, called the Sons, wield power over life and death. Pursued through this sinister world by those who would use his gift for their own reasons, Marcer desperately tries to find a way back to the Harmony--and stumbles upon a secret far deadlier than the looming intergalactic war....