Wide and smooth, the Road was seared into planet Destiny`s rocky surface by the fusion drive of the powered landing craft, Cavorite, The Cavorite deserted the original interstellar colonists, stranding them without hope of contacting , descendants of those pioneers have many questions about the Road, but no settler who has gone down it has ever returned. For Jemmy Bloocher, a young farm boy, the questions burn too hot--and he sets out to uncover the many mysteries of Destiny`s Road,