Lenny June is your average happy-go-lucky expat, out for a good time and a quick buck. And on Tyr Mayam, a technologically backward planet riven by religious rivalries, he has it easy. It helps that he''s quick-witted, handsome, and an exclusive member of the Galactic Confederation''s Terran delegation to a world that''s been declared an ethnologically protected zone for the next 500 years. But Lenny''s life is about to change. For one, his fiancée is due from Earth any day now. And Tyr Mayam, with its doomsday cults and competing sects, has surprises in store, buried deep in ancient history...