Liberating Chelak from reproductive slavery, Sooz and Dardram find themselves in 1971 California on the front yard of widower Richard Lund and his five-year-old daughter Gilly. The Lunds are stymied by their visitors' claim to be from another galaxy, but Sooz's medical acumen remains only for those in the Mendocino County district who fear being harassed for their ethnicity.

A love story, Home and Far Away explores Richard and Sooz's irreverent attraction as well as Sooz's assimilation of Earth's culture via soap operas and the chance to put her medical skills to use. Entering the local physician's practice, Sooz discovers the truth behind Noth's motives, and in having judged Richard according to her beliefs, those assumptions are turned inside out, as well as Sooz's heart in regard to Gilly and her father.

But how to boil down, without spoilers, the essence of a thirty-nine-chapter novel that defies genres and all manners to shoehorn it into an acceptable box. This is no typical time-travel romance or space-opera adventure; this is a tale about human beings, even if two are from how many galaxies away, and one not even our DNA. It's about an alien merging into humanity, cattle finding liberty, an entire hamlet affected by a black female doctor who correctly believes she has all the rights of those within her scope, as well as the harried clients she treats. Read the first three books in this series if you wish, or Far Away from Home, which details Sooz's past, or simply dive into this installment of The Enran Chronicles; you'll figure it out quickly. Science fiction blended with women's fiction along with a heavy dollop of romance, Home and Far Away proffers an outsider's analysis of late twentieth century America and immense healing for all involved. You want a happy ending? You'll find it, and much more, in this fourth segment of The Enran Chronicles.