How is it that members of the royal Keneer family are the citizens of the Hidden Kingdom that have been first to reject the traditional, conservative isolation of the kingdom? Since Marlo married Tam, a galactic force captain, and began integrating refugee citizens of the Galactic Union on the newly developing planet Rudwen, the kingdom had carried on as if nothing had changed. Now Milander, the youngest of the present royal family, has unfortunately become entangled with an intelligence agent. Their paths cross again and again as it becomes clear they are battling the same enemy. When both get stranded on a habitable but deserted planet, Milander becomes aware that all humans are searching for purpose and meaning in a universe designed for inquisitive minds. His battle is between the past strictures and the new concept of a greater, more profoundly significant kingdom.