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Prince Jarrod of Veskia had no choice. With his father, King Vurgus, near death, his depleted and demoralized army surrounded by vast barbarian hordes on a desolate battlefield, Jarrod could only agree to the proposal made by the wizened stranger called Thagor Shen. This sorcerer from a dark and distant land would utilize the powers of a damaged talisman--a solid gold statue of a hawk--to destroy Veskia's enemies and see the triumphant army return to Shordona, capital of the kingdom. In return, Jarrod would seek out the broken piece of the talisman and return it to Thagor Shen. What did the prince have to lose? Not even his father's last words--the only words the comatose Vurgus had spoken in many days--could deter him: "YOU... MUST... NOT..."

What really happens to all those ships and planes that disappear from the Bermuda Triangle without a trace?

Four unsuspecting airline passengers - an army officer, an actress, a police-woman, and a scientist - find out for themselves when their plane hits turbulence over the Triangle and emerges--into a different world.

Were they the victims of some natural flaw in time, a rupture in space, a slippage of reality? Or was their arrival on the planet of Zandra deliberately manipulated by some intelligent life force?

After their first violent confrontation with the inhabitants of the planet, the answer is not long in coming. And as they struggle to stay alive in a world where sophisticated technology coexists with the most primitive of social conditions, only one question remains unanswered: By what means could one leave the planet Zandra? For, strangely enough, not even the beings who had brought them there seemed to know..

Having passed through a time and space warp, Mace Wilde, Eve Clayton, Liberty Crockett, Barney Boone, and Dr. Richter--all fellow passengers on a jetliner whose flight pattern had taken them over the Bermuda Triangle--find themselves in an alien world called Zandra. Peopled by a variety of races, some humanoid and others reptilian, Zandran civilization is at once familiar and completely foreign. Its inhabitants live in a society almost medieval in structure yet whose rulers enforce their will through the use of technologically and genetically advanced weapons.

With Princess Falana, heir to the Emperor's throne, the Earth people, or Terrans, tour the mysterious and long-neglected Zandran provinces. But the casual tenor of their voyage soon turns serious as they become the targets of both a court conspiracy to usurp the Emperor's power and the rebellious subjects they encounter.

Pressed to the limits of endurance and forced to adapt and master the lost technology of the ancient alien superbeings who once controlled Zandra, Mace and his fellows survive and conquer only to face questions beyond survival...