All Aerika Zairi has left of her family is a perfect band of diamonds and an inherited vengeance. Scarred by the deaths of her family and the attack that left her fighting for her life, Aerika heads to an island retreat for rest and healing. But she'll get neither. Arrested on arrival, Aerika is tortured for information by an alien Admiral convinced she's part of some otherworld rebellion. But Aerika has no information to give. Confronted with wild accusations levelled against her family, rage burns her grief to ashes. Thrust into the middle of a brutal war she doesn't understand, Aerika has one chance at revenge: join a rebellion she wants no part of. But first, she must escape before the Admiral realizes she doesn't have the answers he seeks and completes his mission: kill her.