It’s been a year and a half since Baz and his crew rescued Ari and her people from an abandoned mining station. After some mishaps all the humans had agreed to take on the guise of pets so they could live on the Talin homeworld, Talarian.

Life has gotten better in almost every way, but for Ari there’s something missing, and she can’t seem to figure out what.

Baz can tell Ari’s unhappy and is desperate to make her joyful again, but how? She won’t talk to him and there’s nothing physically wrong with her.

If it’s one thing the former Advance Squad Leader knows how to do, it’s reconnaissance. With so many humans at their compound, someone must be able to give him insight into Ari’s current mood.

Baz will stop at nothing to make Ari smile again, and if it means he has to enlist every human and Talin in their compound to recreate an Old Earth holiday called Chirstmass, then that’s what he’ll do!