Humanity has spread to the far reaches of space, with The Golden Door, a planetary colonization monopoly, selling off every desirable--and not-so-desirable--planet to desperate settlers. Each new world comes with new challenges, and to meet that challenge, the children...are evolving. When Pieter, and other gifted children like him, become the target of government research they must fight not only for their lives, but the future of their very species.