Return to earth

Galen Innes returns to his native Earth, far in space and culture from the Marsat habitat he has left, where he hopes to make a choice about his successor as Governor-General. Samara Lloyd is a young woman whose birth into a leading corporate family on Earth is not nearly as magnificent as it might seem. Together, this unlikely duo falls afoul of a cult-like religious figure, the Dolmen, whose consolidation of power includes the murder of Samara's mother, the Director, as well as an attempt on their own lives.