After five years of training at the Royal Academy on the capitol world of Corant, Dane Cochrane is looking forward to celebrating his achievements with his family and friends on his home world of Quantar. Booking passage on the Imperial Starliner Vixis, Dane settles quickly into a life of luxury as one of the ruling class. But Dane has a problem; someone wants him dead. In fact, a lot of people seem to want him dead.
Caught up in a whirlwind of kidnappings, assassination attempts, escapes and rescues, Dane seeks to gain only one thing, his freedom to fight against his family’s enemies. Dane finds himself on Old Earth, now the Imperial Sanctuary planet, a hundred light years from his home and family. With the beautiful and brilliant rebel leader Axel Noiman at his side, he leads a makeshift military unit in a desperate attempt to save his home from an Imperial occupation force and his treacherous brother, Arin. Soon Dane is in a fierce...