What happens when unbridled ambition, lost love, and revenge collide in the 23rd century? For magnate Zobia Kloofs, engineer Nkanzi Kota, and secretary Ida Farrin, the answer is an involuntary journey to the confines of the universe.

Victims of the revolutionary and terrifying "psychotransmutation," they are dematerialized and reconstructed on Elok-II, a spectral world light-years from any help. As they struggle to understand their new and strange reality, fraught with physical and psychological dangers, a question persists: Is this a scientific experiment, an exile... or something much more sinister? Discover a classic science fiction adventure where the greatest distance to cross is the one that separates human hearts.