The long-awaited final chapter in the saga of The Joined Ones. In the first book, Familiar Moon, we learn of the first child born in the moon and her alien friend. We watch them grow and change along with the young moon colony, keeping the secret of the alien presence while learning what the human/alien Joining could accomplish. Only when the colony is facing extinction does the full power of The Joined Ones manifest. In Familiar Earth, the Joined Ones learn what it means to be part of a symbiotic pairing while the colony debates the wisdom of these Joinings. Even with knowledge that without the Joinings, the colony would have been lost, some of the colonists are uneasy about sharing their lives with aliens. When the people of earth learn of these aliens and send in armed troops, the colonists rebel until three of the Joined Ones are abducted. Will the colonists fight or give in and return to earth? Or, is there another option? In Familiar Mars, the colonists attempt to move the colony beyond the reach of the earth's Peacekeepers while trying to find their missing Joined Ones. As hostilities escalate on the moon, a daring rescue attempt on their home planet fails spectacularly. The colonists have nowhere to go but the fourth planet. How can they move nearly a thousand people in a couple of small spacecraft to another far planet before being overrun by earth's forces? Find out in this latest installment of The Joined Ones.