In this militant society, all Nymphai are required to fight wars across the galaxy for their oppressors. Under this iron clad rule, many rebellions have failed, broke apart by death and the loss of strong leadership. More than a thousand years have passed, and no one alive remembers what it is like to be free, most have resigned to their fate to be soldiers, killers for a cause that is not their own.
Your life is not your own.
By now it seems impossible to change, the only way out is to escape. When revolutions fail, the remains scatter and flee to live another day. Leaving the planet, faking deaths, resigning into docile obedience; this is where we find our story. Because in the end, the dead have no story to tell.
Anna Zain can give and take away life. It's part of her half-alien half-human heritage. In the alien society, it's also punishable by death.
Anna's ability saves her sick husband and catches the eye of an alien king. He takes Anna hostage on his spaceship, with the intent to make her his queen. However, not everyone agrees with the risks of sheltering a half-blood.
The species needs guidance and unity, as everyone prepares to wage war to protect - or kill Anna. She could have everything she ever wanted...all for the price of not having it with who she imagined, her husband.