When Ming Dalamani awakens from twenty years of suspended animation, she recalls only fragments of her former life: the life she led before she was arrested by the governing interplanetary corporation, Renasco, for a now unremembered crime. Relocated to an alien world far from the only home she has ever known, Ming serves a powerful Renasco employee to repay her debt. But daily she lives with deadly threats from two men -- the hideous mutant Zardir Huekk and the handsome, deceptive musician Tieg Innig -- who both want the same thing: information. In a universe where even her own past is a mystery, Ming Dalamani must decide where her loyalties lie.