US Edition Book One of The Zhivar Trilogy What does it take to drive a noble man to betray his ideals? The deaths of fifty million? The deaths of his family? Or the deaths of his two little angels? When Arkley Saundier, aka Arkley the Traitor, sinks into madness, no price is too high. Not even the life of his wife, his Federation Whore. But it's not Danora's betrayal that drives him to the brink. As for Danora, selling her soul is the least she can do to find a cure for her two daughters, caught on the precipice of death. But Salma Neilor, the Stellar Federation's president, needs her to take an offer to the mysterious Zhivar. First though, Salma has to stop Arkley, and to do that she gives Melangie Tarjour, a Feebarn Alliance rogue trader and lover of Arkley's hated cousin, an offer she can't refuse despite the old wounds it will open. And to make matters worse, she has to battle wits with Jackarel, the womanizing bastard...