It was an accident of fate. Sahara should have spent the rest of her life in the Dragon-Lords' labor camps on the desert world of Silesia. And she should have died like everyone else when her prison transport ship crashed in the sands. But she lived. And now she is free. Rescued from the desert by Jared Alareth, a hard-fisted jack-of-all-trades, and far from her own homeworld, Sahara works tirelessly to foment a rebellion to overthrow the tyrannical regime of the Dragon-Lords. But even as she struggles to lead his people to freedom, Jared begins to realize that the treachery of the Dragon-Lords runs deeper than they had ever imagined. When Sahara's fate becomes tied to that of Silesia itself, will Jared find a way to save them both before it's too late?