Publisher's Synopsis
The nail-biting sequel to Space Race .
The Gwynns, a pleasant American couple, have lived outside York for fourteen years. Nesta, their only child, who was born there, attends the local school. They seem ordinary enough, but they have an astonishing secret unknown even to Nesta. However, one evening when she sees her father diminish and disappear into a stone lily pad in the garden pond, Nesta has to be told what she really is. Her parents are visitors from the planet Ormingat, sent to Earth to investigate life there. Now they have been summoned back home. Poor bewildered Nesta refuses to accept that she is not earthborn and runs away with her best friend, Amy.
But, there is a time limit on when the family must return to Ormingat. Will her parents track Nesta down before time runs out for them?
