In our world he was Garin, jet pilot and explorer. In the lost land of Tav, he was Garan, who would supply the link with their most ancient past. And in a world far distant in space and time, he was Garan of Yu-Lac, who stand alone between a planet's doom and the ones he loved. It is a story of three lives tied by a recurrent destiny - that of Kepta the Ambitious, of Thrala the Divine, and of Garan himself, man of three worlds.