To Terran Jeff Kerwin the distant planet he remembered only as a childhood dream was home. But years of planning finally brought him back to Darkover, he found that there was no peace for him there - not for someone with both the read hair of a Com'yn lord and the bastard strains of Terran in his blood; not for someone who carried a Darkovan matrix jewel without knowing where it came from; not for someone who managed to win the trust of the sacred Keepers and the secrets of their Tower, only to be accused of betraying them to his Terran masters...