When a spaceship crashes, the survivors are in peril for their lives. When the planet and its inhabitants are unknown to the survivors, fear becomes tangible among them. When the survivors are a crippled man and his four children the odds against survival increase dramatically. …
A family crash lands on an unknown planet and struggles to survive.
Mithras is set up as a penal colony, and the Confederation Colonial Service also uses it as its dumping ground for officers who are troublemakers. Howell is stuck as the new commandant, and to add to his troubles, the colony is being terrorized by a 14-year-old girl.
