Four couples and two boys from the planet Orieon volunteer to go with the astronauts from earth in their space ship to earth. During their flight, the captain and his crew devise a scheme to kidnap the two boys and use them for side shows for monetary gain. Before landing, they separate the two boys from the rest of the orieonis, making mission control believe they only had the four couples on board. This, the third book in the series, Orieon, tells of the landing of the space shuttle on earth in Roswell, New Mexico where the Orieonis will be examined by scientist. The Orieonis not knowing their plight find they have been tricked by the captain and his crew into leaving their planet and going with them to earth. This book tells of their adventure as they scheme to escape.