Stylar, not content with saving his own people, sets off on a journey that will see sacrifice, hardship, picking a team who strike out with him knowing their loved ones have gone to the stars, not knowing what they will find. Personal challenges await them all as not only do they have to find a people, they also must find a craft that will take them from their dying world, each has tasted freedom, but how long can it last? The second in a trilogy that follows Stylar who is motivated by the guilt of being created through the exploitation of a people he comes to know as family, we begin to find out about the others around him their motivations, change is inevitable and we find out it always comes at a price, a future that isn't certain a past that will always be honoured.