'His gaze returned to the baby. She followed his gaze, setting eyes upon the baby girl for the first time.'There she was, gurgling happily as she looked back up at them; oblivious to the fact that she’d been abandoned by her Earthoran mother'.Continuing the story first begun in The Child of the Sapphire Sun: The Dawn of the Sapphire Sun, the eight Tales of the first book of The Tales of the Sapphire Sun contains those stories which take place after the events of the novel and those stories which take place before or during it.In The Earth Mission, or Jaela's Finding of Jane, Jaela makes her first meeting with Jane on Earth; in The Wolf Man at Ahalla, the Wolf Man has made his arrival at Ahalla and Khalan's gone missing; in City Boy, Khaius has only recently discovered he has the superpower of Telekinesis, yet he's about to make a momentous meeting with an alien stranger, one that's going to change his life forever; in The Date, Jane and Khaius go on their first date; in Kaia, the teenage Vampire Hunter is at Thalalasa to deal with three Dhampires there, but her plans are about to undergo a drastic change; in The Parley, Khalan and Khaius have made a temporary return to Alasa to carry out a meeting with Callad, the Spider Lord's former lieutenant, one where Khalan's about to take the greatest risk of all; in Our Life at Ahalla, the events of those missing two months between Khalan, Jane and Khaius's first week at Ahalla and their first mission proper at Dakkaris are finally told in this Tale by Jane; and in Wolf's Death, Khalan's been poisoned by the Spider Lord, who's finally taken his revenge on him for his defeat at Thralkon. Jane's the only one who can save him.These are the eight Tales of Book One of The Tales of the Sapphire Sun, which occur during the first half of the year that will pass between The Child of the Sapphire Sun: The Dawn of the Sapphire Sun and the second novel, The Child of the Sapphire Sun: The Day of the Sapphire Sun.