A dire prophecy is fulfilled when terrorists attack the Royal Moon of Tahnadra. Forced to witness the execution of her father and the destruction of her home, seventeen year old Princess Eladria must flee to the planet, where she finds herself a fugitive in her own world. Lost in a hostile land ravaged by generations of war, Eladria encounters more danger than she could ever have imagined. While evading bounty hunters and hostile militia, a powerful race of beings existing outside of time and space implore her to travel to the Forbidden Land of Drantak. Eladria's mother, they claim, who disappeared when she was a child, is being held there as part of a dangerous experiment. An unknown foe is attempting to shatter the dimensional barriers and unleash a force of evil long ago banished from the mortal realm. With her planet in the midst of catastrophic collapse, Eladria and her shapeshifting maid join forces with an orphaned thief and an exiled mystic. Together they must avoid their pursuers and make a perilous journey from which none of them are likely to return.