Elaenor was a quiet girl who never seemed to quite fit in with other people. And there was a very good reason: she wasn't a person. She was a Calean trapped in a human body for the past 1000 years. Elaenorh tells the story of a college sophomore who works in the special collections library. There, she finds the journal of a woman who lived in 1169, who shares the unusual spelling of her name. She later finds a seed in the journal. Elaenor follows the adventures of the journal's heroine and plants the seed as she did. The seed grows a doorway into a hidden underground world. Unknown to Elaenor, her every move is being watched and followed by creatures she cannot see, and by some that are right in front of her. The second part of the story follows a later incarnation of Elaenor as she sails her way to the very edge of our solar system. Life support is failing. The ship's computer is desperately trying to save her. Yet even in the coldness of space, she is being followed and she is being watched.