It was a routine mission that went horribly wrong …. Lily and her crew had surveyed dozens of worlds in the five years since she had been assigned to the colony/mining detail—without a single hitch—until she and her crew crashes on one of Alexandria’s moons. Stumbling from the wreckage, Lily is rescued/captured—she isn’t sure which, but it feels like capture—by, Zor, one of the winged natives of the primitive world ….