One by one the Righteous Order of Piety Purists seizes the governments of settled planets and colonies. The Dominatrix Lady Cassandra, exiled from her home, struggles to shelter her slaves and clients from the Pietist quest to confine citizens to a sexless, joyless existence. Liberation of a devoted collaborator spirals into a violent confrontation. To protect her allies, Cassandra and her slaves capture Piety Purist militants disguised as missionaries. But, the Pietist prisoners' presence aboard , endangers both crew and spaceship. Pursued by ships equipped with sophisticated tracking and weaponry, Spyder uses his wits, his crew's talents, and everything he can demand of to keep them all alive. A BDSM erotica space opera, pairs dramatic adventures on worlds light years away in a far distant future with the age-old battle between purity and pleasure--and those who use one as a weapon against the other.