Two young children, Prabir Suresh and his sister Madhusree, lived in a remote paradise called Teranesia, where their biologist parents were studying an unexplained genetic mutation among the island's butterflies. Then a civil war shattered their idyllic world.<P>Twenty years later, Madhusree is returning to Teranesia against her brother's wishes, to study strange new plant and animal species that have mysteriously emerged. But what is waiting there is something far more dangerous and wondrous than anything either Suresh has ever dreamed ... or feared.