In this prequel to the Amentura trilogy, one human, Petre is saved from an excruciating death at the hands of a Startmektoken warrior, by the T’Lea. But as he recuperates and learns more about his mysterious saviours, he realises that his own race could actually be saved from seemingly inevitable and entirely self-inflicted destruction if only he could persuade the T’Lea leader to break one of their oldest and most fundamental laws; to never use their power to interfere in the destiny of another race.
