Throughout the Universe, the secret of life is pursued to the death …

Taren Lenox and Lucian Gervaise land on a utopian planet of immortal psychics. It shares an orbit with their lost planet, Maladaan - inhabited by a race that cannot abide psychism. Their saviours believe Taren and Lucian to be incarnations of their great ancestors, come to help them remove the alien planet from their star system. Aided by her new allies, Taren moves to retrieve her lost memories from the Maladaan Secret Service’s memory bank in Esponisa. She discovers that the way to return Maladaan to its rightful universe and future, lies ten years in her past.