With Earth's natural resources critically low, scientists use a new technology to create a wormhole to a new world. Seventeen-year-old Fanar joins his father and many others onto Niton to establish a colony and regularly send much needed water and other resources back to Earth. But when equipment is sabotaged, his father goes missing, and people get sick and die, what was thought to be a virgin world without intelligent life is revealed to have a secret. Fanar must find his father and save everyone from an unexpected danger that threatens the colony and the people on Earth.