Anala Nadim is a free woman until she travels to the planet Mehtar to procure supplies for her father's mining operation on Mehtar's impoverished sister world - the colony planet Avasa. When a twist of fate enslaves Anala to the Lord Prince Jaya Sarojin, Anala is engaged in a battle to free herself from slavery and her world from subjugation to a corrupt Mehtaran consortium. So begins a tale of greed, betrayal, political intrigue and love that introduces both Jaya and Anala to lives they had never before imagined.