Sean Plummer is in search of peace and quiet and a new life helping those of his own kind settle into life on a new world. The seaside town of Kiaroona seems perfect, but he finds things a little bit more complicated and he soon finds his new life disrupted from an unexpected quarter.

Jackson Soames, his one-time adversary, is searching for a planet that appears to have been kidnapped by the newly re-appeared Quar. How can an entire planet just disappear?

 How will Jack cope with the feelings that the daughter of his mentor has for him while dealing with Diana and his new daughter about to be born on the newly settled world of Harth? He can’t be in two places at once - or can he?