Once, a million years ago, a water world populated with dolphin-like beings, the product of gene-alteration by their Progenitors on the Earth-like world one orbit closer to the sun, was flung into the cold and dark of interstellar space by the passage of a rogue star.
And four thousand years ago, its engineers were awakened from suspended animation to bring the world into a new orbit around a giant, blue-white star, where the waters of the World Ocean could thaw and life could continue to flourish.
This is the story of the A’ka’pa’i’ka’ti, and their Foretold Saintess, Speaker to the Dry Ones, born to communicate with the Progenitors when they finally arrived to reclaim the lost . . .
This book carries on from an incident in my earlier novella, A Huntress on the Rocks.
And the prologue is from my novel The Lion and the Lizard.
It is not absolutely necessary to read either of those books before you read this one; though if you are a reader of my Timelines and Timelines Universe series, you will certainly be a step ahead of those who haven’t done.
