Based in a future where the inhabitant of Earth have moved to colonized planets we find ourselves thrust onto the planet of Shahid, fashioned somewhat after old Middle East. A desert planet whose majority of citizens are destitute and struggling for survival, ruled by a militant sheik. Amidst these run down people Ally, a scrappy young woman, has taught herself the skills and allied herself with a disabled techie war vet to break into the middle class ring of Shahid that houses the merchants and off-world traders. By chance she finds two things that will change her life completely. Prince Jamai, son to the sheik, finds his life turned completely upside down when he receives news of his parents assassinations. Left with a cybernetic leopard and an entire kingdom to rule overnight. He doesn't understand how the broke girl from the outer ring of his kingdom or the secret journals of past Sheik's are connected, but they are. And they may lead to the biggest scandal the people of his planet have yet to witness.