For in his brief absense, his government has sent in his paidhi - successor, Deana Hanks - representative of a dangerous archconservative faction on Mospheira who hate the atevi. But his sudden and premature return to the mainland is cause for more than mere physical discomfort.
With the situation fast becoming critical, Bren Cameron, the brilliant, young paidhi to the court of the atevi is recalled from Mospheira where he has just undergone surgery. Nearly two centuries after the starship Phoenix disappeared into the heavens, leaving an isolated colony of humans on the world of the atevi, it unexpectedly returns to orbit overhead, threatening the stability of both atevi and human governments.
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