Rodwell Richards is a family man living in Foxton, Lincolnshire. This is about to change. Assassinated in his sleep he wakes to find himself in another world. As though Rodwell wasn't already coping with enough, just in dealing with "rebirth", he is soon being pursued as a murdering terrorist across the landscapes of Axa-Goranas. When his new love, Lucy, is tortured and left to die, Rodwell is finally forced to let his past go, and do all he can to defeat those who threaten his new existence. Goranian technologies are not much different from those of the Earth, but nevertheless everything is unfamiliar enough to make Arrivals' early weeks bewildering. The native population's telepathic skills are a source of particular grief.