The Earth is dying. Humanity's only hope lies in moving to a new home, the worlds orbiting a gas giant that is a two hundred year journey away. New lives await the first colonists, if they can overcome the weight of their pasts on Earth. Carl and Martha travel with their teenage children, hoping a new world can help them rebuild their marriage. Jordan fights to escape her past, to find a new role and a new place away from the troubles she is leaving light years behind her. Carlton and Jacqueline travel in the lap of luxury, transferring their powerbase from Earth to the new colonies. Father Josiah, an ordinary Catholic priest, leads a pilgrimage to the new worlds. Mark is an ordinary pilgrim, a man looking for a simple life. Together they experience good and bad times, romance and friendships, hardships and troubles as they travel toward a new dawn for mankind. Their journey will take them from their departure to the first Christmas in their new homes as humanity colonizes outer space. New Dawns was originally published as a series of short stories and novellettes, the whole saga is collected here in one volume - telling the story of humanity's new life on new worlds.