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One day, eighteen-year-old Maran and her friends are witnesses to a mysterious scarlet streak blazing across the dawn sky. A meteor? Maran decides to investigate, but what she discovers will change her life forever. An alien pod has landed on Terrat Du. And the alien who emerges has an incredible tale to tell: Known as "The Traveler," he is an escaped survivor from a planet under attack by a race of brutal barbarians intent on conquering his planet, Arakka - and exterminating his people. Incredibly, The Traveler insists he has returned to Arakka. Terrat Du is Arakka. The alien is home. How can this be?

Having escaped extermination when ruthless invaders colonized his planet, a space traveler wanders for many years and then returns to claim his world, changing the lives of seventeen-year-old Maran and her friends.