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.