After many long months of jumping through the planets in the Maylin Fold, Aster has finally made it back home to Earth. But when he arrives, he finds that the comforts he had longed for all this time are not enough to bring him peace. There can be no peace while the Corentin pursues him and those he loves. He must push on if he ever hopes to win this battle between good and evil. Now, Aster must seek the gold he traveled so far to find. But first he must convince his mother and grandma that his tales of travel are true. How can he prove that the magic he experienced on the other end of the universe was real? And Cait, the strange girl who accompanied him back to Earth from the Triaden, is his responsibility to care for now that she has been ripped from her home. Little Cait has harbored some secrets of her own that Aster will need to unravel if he is to find the gold he seeks. And his father, thief of the family treasure that Aster had hoped to claim back at the farm, has gone missing yet again. He must find him to recover the gold, but also to bring him back to the Triaden to see if the healing powers he experienced there will be enough to help his father, too. But Dad holds another, darker secret, and when Aster discovers it, his whole world will be turned upside down.