Novi'kavkaz was an old world, her ties with Earth broken by passing millennia and the vastness of interstellar space. But there was still room on that tired planet for men to find their destinies: men like A'drei, the prince who did not desire the throne he was forced to defend; Ruslahn, whose desire for vengeance ran deeper than the seas he sailed; and M'ikhail, who sought peace instead of revenge, only to find the choice was not his to make...
Novi'kavkaz was an old world, her ties with Earth broken by passing millennia and the vastness of interstellar space. But there was still room on that tired planet for men to find their destinies: men like A'drei, the prince who did not desire the throne he was forced to defend; Ruslahn, whose desire for vengeance ran deeper than the seas he sailed; and M'ikhail, who sought peace instead of revenge, only to find the choice was not his to make...