Book III of Homecoming. The City of Basilica has fallen. Now Wetchik, Nafai and all their family must brave the desert wastes and cross the wide continents to Harmony's hidden spaceport - silent, abandoned, waiting for the command to make the great interstellar ships ready for flight. But of these sixteen people, only a few have chosen their exile. Rasa's spiteful daughters and their husbands and Wetchik's oldest son Elemak have been forced against their will. Their anger and hatreds make to difficult journey harder. Cover art by Keith Parkinson.