Susan Melnin is a successful trade negotiator for a major interstellar trade conglomerate. A trusted coworker enslaves her under the laws of an alien planet, and she begins an odyssey of danger, intrigue and sex that will change her forever. Purchased by the mysterious Brusjin Valenshenko, she becomes entangled in a secret war that had been fought in the Galactic Federation for over 500 years. What is her Master’s mission and why does it take him to the primitive outlands of the galaxy?