A warrior/priestess joins a bard from another world and five genetically designed children to save their planet from a hostile takeover. Drusilla: A Dragon Talker, born of a line of powerful, psychically gifted women, she has been trained to command the beasts of Vensoog. Lucas: An off-world survivor of an interplanetary war, he is the untrained hereditary Bard of his people with the ability to compel with his voice. Juliette: super smart, ruthless, wily and conniving--the perfect spy whose creators never realized they gave her a loving heart. Lucinda: given genius level IQ whose enhanced creativity genes made her the perfect icy planner. But those same genes sparked a need for order and balance at odds with the goals of her masters. Violet: a powerful empath whose alliance with the Vensoog Sand Dragon Jelli gave her the courage to defy her masters. Rupert and Roderick: the intuitive chemist and the genius code cracker turned out to be a lot tougher than their masters anticipated. Only by working together can they stop the ruthless Thieves Guild from enslaving their planet.