Here's a newly adopted treecat craftsman who mustn't turn into a threat to the closely guarded secret of just how smart these Sphinx denizens really are. Here's a restless journalist whose campaign to protect tree cats from being exploited as the newest, coolest pets on the planet may threaten the very creatures he seeks to protect. And there is a mysterious series of strange happenings that haunt the young inhabitants of the Sphinx, including some of those closest to Stephanie. In an attempt to obtain enough evidence to force the understaffed authorities of her newly settled planet to act, Stephanie is forced to take actions she never imagined - including going undercover into the wilds of nightclubs, a realm where her faithful guardian, the arboreal one, cannot go. cat Lionheart. . .