The action takes place on a newly colonized Mars and revolves around a young beautiful heroine: She was a strange creature, this little Maya of his. She had been born on Mars and, orphaned by some unknown disaster, had been cared for during her first years by the mysterious, grotesque native Martians. When they took her at last to one of the dome cities, she was sent to Earth for rearing. And now she was back on Mars as an undercover agent of the Earth government, seeking to ferret out the rebels known to be engaging in widespread forbidden activities.
By Charles Louis Fontenay, an American journalist and science fiction writer. He was the author of about 30 short stories, which were published in 1950s in such periodicals as “Amazing”, several science fiction novels and children’s books.