They fled from an Earth ravaged by plague and violence, seeking to fulfill their holy missionto discover a new home for humanity. But instead of landing in a peace-filled paradise, Earths Missionaries find themselves caught between two warring civilizationsthe Garkohn and the Tehkohn. And only one of the people from Earth, a young girl and converted Missionary, has the proper survival training to see through the lies of their Garkohn hosts, who extend the hand of friendship to the humans only to enslave them. She alone can understand the necessity of becoming one with the Tehkohn enemy. And, perhaps, she can find a way to release the Missionaries from the deadly bondage into which they have complacently fallen. Yet even if she succeeds, will she merely be saving them for a still more inescapable doom . . . ?