When the gateway to her world is destroyed, Diamond finds herself stranded on a planet much more primitive than her own and is forced to conceal her true form. As a member of the Sav'ine Guard, she has the ability to cloak herself to assimilate, but keeping her secret isn't easy. Diamond enlists the help of companions posing as family members to aid her in fitting in with the society's most affluent, but her ruse doesn't last and eventually she is forced into confronting her past as well as her future. Stacy Bender's third novel in the Sav'ine Guard series continues the story of the elite private army of human/machine hybrids whose loyalty and battleground skills are legendary across worlds. Bender carries on her tradition of weaving suspenseful action, heroism and a little romance into a well-told tale.