When exiled to Earth, Mikash'ran Shansi, a felineen of Orn, learns how a reflexive act can shape his future. Given an impossible task by his mother, Mikashy poses as the human, Michael Dawkin-Roy and attends graduate school at University of Colorado in Boulder. There he meets Cally Jansky and falls in love. Cally is haunted by the story that her mother encountered cat-like humanoids landing a UFO near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Even though Cally has evidence of the story's truth, she cannot believe something that would label her as a nutcase. Cally and Mikashy find themselves in a tangled weave...