System

Stranded on a hostile alien world thousands of light years from
Earth, Delia Kent has no hope of ever seeing her homeworld again... and
little chance of surviving the attentions of the evil locust-like aliens
known as the Skelt.

Having escaped from the Skelt and made her way halfway across the
planet to meet up with other survivors from Earth, now she and her
companions - accompanied by a friendly chimpanzee-like alien and a giant
spider-crab - face a death-defying dash across the planet's inimical
equator to the valley of Mahkanda... where salvation just might be
waiting.