Orphaned at twelve, Shethor Own Eliaston found herself rejected by the society in which she had been raised, and thrust into the world her family had left behind. It is a world of barren sand and dusty underground cities filled with people who measure their success by their sales number, but it was there beneath the desert that she discovered her true heritage and her mission. Now she must push herself and her world to the brink of destruction to break the chains that have bound her people for centuries.