How do you convert a gift for strategy into a tool for survival and integration into an utterly foreign society? Stephen quickly discovers that providing the answer to this question is vital to his tenuous position in a three hundred year “younger” earth. The political under currents of society are doubly dangerous to Stephen who is not, in the true sense of the word, a native of his new world. Treading the tightrope of “getting ahead” while not attracting the attention of malevolent forces stirring below the civilized veneer of Morak Academy and Recal society becomes ever more difficult. The polarizing genetic ideologies that created Recal society are simmering just below boiling point. Stephen’s discoveries tend to place him squarely in the sights of those bent on changing society to their sinister world view.