American fantasy and mystery novelist who wrote three licensed Original Series novels for Pocket Books between 1985 and 1994: Ishmael, Ghost-Walker and Crossroad.
Barbara Hambly, best known for her fantasy and historical mystery fiction, wrote three novels for the Pocket Books Star Trek line.
Ishmael (1985) sends an amnesiac Spock back to nineteenth-century Seattle, where he is taken in by a local businessman. The book is an unannounced crossover with the television western Here Come the Brides, in which Mark Lenard had starred, and it is filled with cameo appearances by characters from other series.
She returned with Ghost-Walker (1991), in which an unseen presence haunts the Enterprise during a delicate mission, and Crossroad (1994), in which a ship from a possible future emerges near the Enterprise.