Space pilot Silence Leigh's dreams of her own ship and of escape from the Hegemony's oppressions take on new direction and focus when she joins the crew of "The Sun-Treader"

This sequel to "Five-Twelfths of Heaven" again features the female mage and pilot Silence Leigh as she embarks on a voyage to discover long-lost Earth, held in thrall by mysterious captors for centuries. She must undertake an apparently hopeless rescue mission in order to save the planet.

Mage-in-training Silence Leigh faces her greatest challenge—to reopen the well-guarded road to lost Earth