As far as Ira DeSoto knows, he is an ordinary teenager with nothing extraordinary planned for the life ahead of him. But when he accidentally rescues a Kagran Child from a slow, lonely, painful death, it leads to the rescue of fifteen more from out of the underground slave market on his home planet of Tev-Raxia. Ira's compassion consumes him as he works to nurture and fights to protect these children from unseen hands out to take them back or destroy them in the process. When he makes plans to transport them out into the galaxy aboard a starship, take them home and reunite them with their real families his father thinks he's crazy, but Ira DeSoto harbors a secret that even his father doesn't know.