First in a brand-new Foreigner trilogy from Hugo Award winning author C. J. Cherryh.
Cajeiri is the young son of the powerful leader of the Western Associationβand he has become a target for forces bent on destroying his fatherβs rule. For Cajeiri is the first ateva youth to have lived in a human environment. And after hundreds of years of fragile atevi-human coexistence, he may very well be the first of his people to ever truly understand the so similarβyet so dangerously differentβaliens who share his home planet and threaten the hidebound customs of his race.