An old friend will be coming to visit, for the benefit of all: the Governor of New California, and the science baron Rich Ransdell. Security will be tight, for trouble has just swept the great Keep. As the time comes closer and closer for the Eisensteins, Paul Royer, and Leah Herzog to leave for the Tyrannobos drive, a play of shadows dominates their days. Yet life is good for the people of Diablo Keep. Will the Eisensteins and the Jamiesons be able to keep it that way for their people?