stars are dying thats the news that greets john bandicut and his companions they must travel to a nebula called starmakerto discover what force threatens not just the newborn stars but every world within a thousand lightyears they must journey not just into the perils of a starforming nebula but into confrontation with a billionyearold adversary of life as they know it whatever chance they have of stopping the terrifying mindaru may be found only in the fiery heart of an intelligent sun meanwhile back on triton julie stone experiences her own encounter with the translator and she too must make a lifeordeath decision in defense of the earthsunborn is volume 4 of the chaos chronicles from the nebulanominated author of eternitys end