
The forest-dwelling treecats are small, cute, smart, and have a pronounced taste for celery. Yet Stephanie is a young woman determined to make discoveries, and the biggest one of all awaits her: an intelligent alien species. But Sphinx is a far more dangerous place than ultra-civilized Meyerdahl, and Stephanie's explorations come to a sudden halt when her parents lay down the law: no trips into the bush without adult supervision! It should have been the perfect new home - a virgin wilderness full of new species of every sort, just waiting to be discovered.

Stephanie Harrington had always expected to be a forest ranger on her homeworld of Meyerdahl until her parents relocated to the frontier planet of Sphinx in the far distant Star Kingdom of Manticore.
