There are bad doings on Abode...
It is the future - some thousand years beyond the time of Cutter. Humankind has colonized the solar system... and discovered that they are not alone. War ensued between the two species, humans and the silent aliens called the Never-ending. Forty years ago, the survival of one of the two races was held in the hands of one person - a gamin enigma with silver hair called Jink!
Who she is, what she is, what drives her, no one knows. But the world government and its military want Jink now - for it seems the forty-year peace is falling apart. The trouble is, Jink doesn't want ot be found, certainly not by the elite telepathic Black Snakes. So the Skyward has recruited the good-hearted but luckless Kullyn Kenn to find the mysterious Jink, hoping that his innocence will succeed where intrigue and high technology have failed...