Acorna's people, the Linyaari, are once more without a home. And though
they survived the brutal attack from the cold-blooded Khleevi, the
battle left their beloved planet, narhii-Vhiliinyar, horribly scarred.
Yet all is not lost. While the damage is terrible, hope still lives
deep within this gentle, spiritual people. Banding together, they will
rebuild both narhii-Vhiliinyar and the original Linyaari homeworld,
Vhiliinyar, restoring them to the natural beauty and vitality they
enjoyed before the time of the Khleevi.
Acorna, too, is eager to help reconstruct the homeworld of which she's
long dreamed. Though she was abandoned in space as a baby, then rescued
and raised by gruff human asteroid miners, the beautiful young woman
with the "funny" feet and hands and gleaming horn has made peace with
her heritage and is now eager to turn her extraordinary healing powers
to re-create the Linyaari's world with her lifemate, Aari, her human
"uncles", and her friends.
But just as work begins to get under way something goes terribly wrong.
Linyaari begin mysteriously disappearing - including Aari and his
sister, Maati. Is it the Khleevi or some other unknown enemy?
Searching for her beloved, Acorna makes an even more astonishing
discovery; the remains of a subterranean world that belonged to the
legendary Friends - a technologically advanced society that populated
Vhiliinyar before the time of the Ancestors. What happened to the
Friends? Where did they go and why has so little remained of their
society? Acorna knows that to save Aari and the rest of the missing
Linyaari she must begin to seek the answers - a guest that will once
again take her deep into the realms of limitless space to find the
origins of her people.
