She's a primitive girl in a Nano Age world Lin di Ana of the simple fishing village of Bree is bright, impatient, and destined for greatness - but she doesn't know it yet, she's just a teenager trying to survive her first year at boarding school an ocean away from home. Catastrophe strikes the very moment she touches down on the violet sands of Vona - a stranger in a strange land. This is the day she worked so hard for, the day her life begins. Through schemes and cunning, she takes on the challenge of repairing the damage while somehow finding her place in an alien culture everyone but her calls home.