Ten years before the twenty-first century people began to disappear without warning, vanishing before the eyes of their spouses, their lovers, and their friends. Fifty-one years into the new millennium, Joshua Morgan, special investigator for the Alien Intelligence Team of the Space Intelligence Command (SICOM), comes to this place out of time, this New England village called Sarah's Landing. Somehow Morgan knows that hidden among the archaic weather-beaten wooden buildings of this village lay the key to where those people had gone.

His interest is not totally official, for Joshua Morgan, scientist, biologist, and astronaut, has himself lost friends, has in fact almost been one of them. He was to be the lead biologist on the maiden voyage of the Earth Star-1, the most important deep-space mission yet. But hours before the flight, he is stricken with a serious viral illness forcing him to stay behind. And Earth Star-1 vanishes.

Joshua Morgan, "scrubbed" from the most ambitious deep space mission yet, is temporarily assigned to the Space Intelligence Command's (SICOM), Investigative Branch to solve the mystery of these disappearances. He must determine the thread between a Centuries old mystery, people vanishing before the new millennium, a lost star-ship in deep space, and a New England village, a place out of time, called Sarah's Landing. In his search for answers, Joshua stumbles upon a mystery dating back 111 years to Einstein's Electro-Magnetic Field Flux Theories, and our initial experiments with inter-dimensional travel.

During his search for the truth, Joshua meets and falls in love with Alexandra, a telepath, who senses danger in Joshua's life. The first inkling of the Alien bond manifests itself in Alexandra's dreams after her lover, Joshua Morgan, disappears while she is away from Sarah's Landing.

The story begins in the year 2055, and weaves around Sarah's Landing, one of the last surviving vestiges of an earlier era. Unknown to most of its inhabitants, it maintains an unusual bond with an alien city, and its unseen planet light years away, in an undiscovered galaxy the New Englanders have not been privy to; and with it, its people ... the empathies and Telepaths of Theon. It involves a race of beings whose telepathic, telekinetic, and psychic abilities are more powerful and far-reaching than anyone could have imagined.

In the obscurity of deep space, this shrouded planet (Theon) is quietly sending a technically superior force to search the universe for compatible life forms. The aliens, who call themselves Theonians, have become victims of their own advanced culture and are facing extinction unless a solution can be found. While on Earth, they assimilate among the people of the planet with ease and are undetectable.

Earth Star-I's historic flight is in response to a message sent by a newly contacted star in the vicinity of the Reticulli System, 37 light years away. The ship is equipped with two propulsion systems; one for physical space travel, the other, an untried hyperspace drive system capable of traveling faster than the speed of light. The second system designed by Allen, Joshua's replacement, is a device for dimensional and hyper-dimensional transitions capable of transporting ship and crew light years away, almost instantaneously, eliminating the meaning of time and space as we know it. But there is a danger. If the starship breaks through the barriers of light velocity without reaching hyperspace instantaneously, the ship and its crew will either disintegrate or wander forever between the corridors of time.

Seconds after hyper-drive ignition, the Lunar telescope records a light flash of tremendous proportions. The ship and its crew go silent. There is no word, just loud crackling static then dead silence. Houston attempts to launch a rescue mission. The plans for the propulsion system have mysteriously disappeared.

During the course of his investigation, Joshua is drawn to Sarah's Landing by an inexplicable gut feeling. The only office space available to him is in a musty old mausoleum, that not even the 'natives' would enter. He believes that there is a link between this quaint village and to the people, who have vanished, as well as to the 111-year old mystery, and to the enigma of the ship's disappearance.

For several months, Joshua's probing in Sarah's Landing is stymied when he meets and falls in love with a beautiful, redheaded telepath, Alexandra McKay. She senses that as long as he stays in 'that building' his life is in danger. But she cannot persuade him to leave. When she embarks on a weekend trip, Joshua is forcefully reminded of his purpose.

During a violent electrical storm, he willingly moves through a disappearing door, a portal, transporting him to a cryogenic lab on a different planet. Here he is held prisoner until his transformation. He develops new abilities and incredible alien powers. Given a choice to join the aliens or face entombment, he joins them hoping to escape.

Upon her return to Sarah's Landing, Alexandra, Joshua's psychic lover, searches frantically for him. Henderson, the caretaker of the old building, arouses suspicion as to Joshua's disappearance and he is arrested. He inexplicably disappears from both sight and mind of all but Alexandra. She soon discovers this devious character is her alien nemesis, responsible for the strange happenings in Sarah's Landing.

In her waking hours, Alexandra tries desperately to find Joshua, enlisting the aid of Lieutenant Henry Jacobsen, of the Space Intelligence Command, only to have her efforts blocked at every turn by Henderson, her strange, devious nemesis, who is responsible for her many bizarre nightmares. After his own investigation as to the whereabouts of Joshua proves fruitless, Lt. Henry (Harry) Jacobsen, Joshua's closest friend, arrives to help. Although eager to be of service, Harry is far more interested in Alexandra. He spends all his spare time with her and hopes for more.

Unknown to her, Henderson's prime responsibility is twofold: stop Alexandra from using her psychic powers to contact Joshua and, stop her from learning of the existence of the Alien Planet. But Alexandra is determined not to be dissuaded. She pushes ahead and succeeds in thwarting Henderson. Successfully contacting Joshua, she brings him back to her for almost twenty-four hours. She discovers the existence of the alien planet and ultimately places herself, her unborn child, and Harry Jacobsen in mortal danger.

Alexandra McKay and Lieutenant Henry Jacobsen, of SICOM, as far as they knew, are the only two Earthlings, presently residing in Sarah's Landing, who were aware of the extraterrestrial tie. Harry, concerned for Alexandra's safety, decides, for the present, to keep what he knows about the Aliens and Sarah's Landing to himself. During his efforts to help Alexandra search for Joshua, he grows to love her and Joshua's unborn son. Alexandra, although fond of Harry as a friend, a brother, has only one love in mind--Joshua.

Joshua is fascinated by the Theonians, who materialize and dematerialize with little effort. One night while imprisoned in his living quarters, Joshua suddenly hears Alexandra, and realizes they are capable of linking their minds across the vast reaches of space. Heron, Theon's Leader, sends his daughter, Adrianne, to meet with Joshua. Adrianne befriends Joshua without divulging her identity. Due to her youth and inexperience, Adrianne unwittingly allows Joshua to escape to her planet's surface. In the alien's inhospitable atmosphere, Joshua almost dies before discovering the lost ship and the identity of the young scientist who replaced him on the flight.

Shocked by his discoveries, he teleports back to his living quarters. Confusing Adrianne long enough to access her mind, he learns his friends no longer yearn for Earth and he is meant to 'join' with her to be the new Leader of Theon.

Joshua learns from Adrianne, that long before he came to be on the alien planet, the Theonians, under Heron's leadership, were searching the galaxies for intelligent beings. Upon their discovery of the blue planet, Beam Ships and transporting sensors were sent to various locations on Earth. Activating their long unused sensors, accidents began to happen and citizens of the Planet Earth began appearing on the surface of Theon. Many of the transplanted people suffered severe damage in the process. Out of compassion, those afflicted were entombed in Theon's cryogenic laboratories. Survivors were allowed to establish an Earth Colony on Theon. Heron orders the deactivation of the sensors.

As the years pass, a puzzling pattern emerges. The children of the Earth Colony are unaffected by the centuries of genetic engineering practiced on Theon. A practice, which, after a period of time, was the cause of a gene mutation, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of Theonian children. Theon's survival is at stake, Heron orders the sensors reactivated. He sends Henderson along with Allen, one of the Colony's children, an ingenious, brilliant, young scientist, to Earth--to bring back healthy specimens and a new leader for Theon.

In the time it has taken Joshua to find the link between Sarah's Landing, the missing people, Earth Star-1, and the alien impact on the 111-year-old mystery, he has become sympathetic to Theon's cause and has 'joined' with Adrianne.

A quadrangle develops when the main characters are helplessly caught in the entanglement of an affair that spans two different planets light years apart. Joshua has discovered that his love of both women has resulted in two sons--siblings--one from the alien planet Theon, and one from the planet Earth--empowered with their father's mind-linking capabilities not only to their father and to their mothers, but to each other as well across the vastness of space. This phenomenon results in the safety of both planets being compromised and is now susceptible to detection by an ominous dark force.

All of this, together with Heron's disclosure of the danger from an outside galaxy, a danger, which could destroy both Earth and Theon, adds to Joshua's struggle with his decision on whether to return to Earth. Believing he has only one choice left to him, he teleports to Earth to explain to Alexandra what his decision must be.

And that is the way things stand as the Telepaths of Theon begins slightly before the time of Andrew's birth.