Seventeen-year-old Lisen Holt only begins to realize that her life is fractured after a sorcerer abducts her from a California beach and brings her home to Garla. She awakens at Solsta Haven, a refuge for the spiritual members of Garlan society kwn as hermits. The sorcerer, Hermit Eloise, has returned Lisen's body to its true form--human-like with a marsupial pouch. She then restores Lisen's memory of her first ten years in Garla, leaving her earthly existence behind but t forgotten. Although she is Lisen of Solsta w, questions haunt her, questions Eloise refuses to answer. Who are the parents who left her at Solsta? Why did Eloise send her to Earth? And what is so important about her that Eloise has manipulated so much of her life? The answers will propel Lisen into a quest for a throne, and all that will stand between her and her birthright is her matricidal twin of a brother.
