On a small, remote island in the vast Pacific Ocean, seventeen year old Chicagoan, Mitchell Breech struggles with his derailed life, the result of his father's recent job change. His strategy is to turn inward, while silently projecting his frustration outward. But for Mitchell, dramatic changes are about to take place through the overtures of a lovely island girl, Nina Consalves, and his near-death encounter with a 900 year old alien, whose ship crashed there in 1200 AD and now lies concealed beneath an avalanche of fallen rock. Morton Shenden, nearly blind and in failing health for lack of...