It was clear that Ren and his family were hiding from something. Sharyn knew how hard it was to keep secrets. She sensed that the brothers and their father had been through a terrible ordeal. The longer she was with them, the more she began to care for these men. She even started to imagine a life with Ren.

But when a rogue band of Truppen cyborgs hunting for Ren, spotted him with Sharyn, they formed a plan to flush their quarry. They were single-minded in their desire to avenge themselves upon Ren and his brothers. They would kidnap, murder, and torture their way across the galaxy to attain their goal. Ren knew the only way to stop them was to face what he was, what he had been, and what he might become, to save Sharyn and the others from an approaching wave of death and destruction.