Cale and his bodyguard, trainer, and trusted friend, Rafe, escape to Earth, disguising themselves as humans. Cale meets Rita Carter, a human woman; he falls in love with and marries her. After a long time of running from the Dragit's forces on Earth, Cale returns to Tyrus to help strengthen his loyalist forces, the Ooshati, leaving Rita and their young son, David, under Rafe's protection.
In the present day, when the Dragit finally finds the family, he is determined to kill them, and David Carter's teenage life is thrown into a devastating adventure of stopping the Dragit, losing and gaining friends, and finding out just who he is.
