Humans had to start over on another planet. They slowly lost your technology and reverted to a more simple way of life. Many years later, three Tandroki warriors crash-land on the planet.

Jackasarian is half-Tandroki and has always been rejected by his father's people. He stows away on his boss's ship, and when the ship crash-lands, he leaves the ship to investigate a strange power source in the area.

Katarina and her younger sister are on the run from their abusive father. They decide to take a rarely used (possibly haunted) route to reach help before their father can catch up with them.

This is the third book in the series. I liked the first two books, but not the third. The instalove was too insta and the children's dialogue didn't work for me. (The fmc's sister is ten but her dialogue reads like a sixteen year old. Another child has a lisp and the author writes her dialogue phonetically.) ( )