For as long as Min can remember, the planet of Hunita has always been her home. With her caretaker, an alien scientist, she has lived a quiet life at his house in a small coastal town near the capital city. However, after being left temporarily with one of his coworkers, this existence is changed forever. With the arrival of three strange humans from a mysterious place called Earth, and another from a slave colony, questions begin to arise regarding Min's origins. Convinced that the Tsi-pacians have some darker purpose in mind, Rachel, Joy and Theo, the humans from Earth, enlist the slave, Arneth, to help kidnap Min and escape in order to find a way back home. Their escape attempt quickly becomes a desperate flight for survival. Hounded by slavers, and space pirates, the humans eventually find themselves uncovering a conspiracy in which Min herself is the primary evidence and revealing the truth may rock the political foundation of the galaxy. It's soon very clear that before anyone can even consider the prospect of finding a way home, Min will have to come to terms with the truth about her past, and confront the shadows that lie within it, even if those shadows are darker than the blackness of space. Time is running out, as the search for Orion has already begun.