Through the thirteen novels, Elizabeth Stanton and her group discover what is actually happening on their world of Tarra. Namely, the aliens created Tarra as a dumping ground for all their own spiritual beings that they found objectionable in their societies - those who upset their societies: scientists, revolutionaries, artists, great thinkers, and of course criminals. Thus, these three different alien societies dumped these unwanted beings on Tarra, their penal colony, forcing the beings into physical bodies with enough traumas so that the beings could not leave the bodies (until it died), were convinced that they were nothing more than a physical body, and could not remember their previous lives. Stanton and her group reverse all of this over many hundreds of years, drive out the aliens, and develop a therapy to undo this horrific damage to the people, set against the long term evolution of the many societies on Tarra. This is the ninth novel in the Elizabeth Stanton series. Picture a perfect society, a whole country without any crime, where anyone can walk down any street at any time without even a threat of a pick pocket. Picture a country where all children are fully educated until they are fourteen. Picture a country where there is no divorce, couples are happily married for life. Picture a country where all live in harmony and no one goes hungry. Picture a people who are very religious and always attend church. Ah, the perfect society of millions. Yes, the perfect society was created centuries ago by the alien Mantis Creatures on the island country of Dorota. Now Bethany must discover if the Mantis are still there and if so eliminate them. If they are not there, she is charged with finding a way to help these millions overcome their horrible situation. She gets involved because emissaries of Dorota are now moving to the western lands and spreading their religion and ways of life to these lands. Their mission: make all women armless as they are on Dorota. Bethany heads to Dorota to put an end to this brutality and insanity perpetrated by the Mantis Creatures, down through the centuries.
