The late twenty-first century. After a visit from a stranger carrying a coded message, the life of fifteen-year-old loner Kalen Rance is uprooted when his secretive father takes him to the distant Martian colonies. Soon after arriving in the cloaked city of Asheton, Kalen's hopes of deciphering the message are dashed when his father mysteriously vanishes. And the situation becomes more dire when villainous strangers threaten Kalen's life and force him to go on the run. He needs friends - fast. Martian born friends who know the colony. Who know its rules. And how to break them. But none of them are prepared for the truth. An appalling secret which will rock the colony and which powerful people are desperate to keep hidden . . . This is the intriguing, action-packed first novel in Mark Hazell's Martian Born Series. He is currently at work on the second.