A small, distant colony struggles to protect their world and way of life – and ends up changing the very nature of the game.
Newham is reunited with Earth after more than three centuries and the small human colony is tossed into a complex political game which touches the far corners of the galaxy. Struggling to preserve their planet and way of life, the colonists face off against their perceived enemy. But even while that battle is being fought, other players are changing the very nature of the game.
Captain Charles Jonson, head of the mission from Earth, takes on the acting role of his life. Simply surviving on the planet is difficult enough, but manipulating and deceiving the beautiful woman who leads the colony, Councilor Nydra, is by far the greatest challenge he has ever faced. While Charles and Nydra spar with misleading words and hidden weapons, a young woman in a distant settlement defies the iron-clad rules laid down for the colony’s survival and leaves the safety of her home to join the boys in their rite-of-passage, the First Journey.
Searching for a place where she can belong, Daniela becomes the unexpected key to the planet’s future.