Two years after the unhatching of Callayan President Neiland's plot to make the capital city of Tanusha the center of the Federation, Callay is under siege. A powerful faction of conservative Fleet captains has surrounded Callay, at Earth's behest, and is threatening a blockade - or worse.

Cassandra Kresnov is a highly advanced hunter-killer android. She has escaped the League and fled to Callay, a member of the Federation. This is a story with a cracking plot and strong characters. At its heart is the enigma of Cassandra: Is she more human than human, or is she totally untrustworthy?

Cassandra is an experimental design - more intelligent and more creative than any that have preceded her. But with her intellect come questions, and a moral awakening. This work follows the adventures of Cassandra Kresnov, an artificial person, or android, created by the League, one side of an interstellar war against the conservative Federation.

Book 2 in this fantasy quartet, A Trial of Blood and Steel picks up the story of the brave and independent heroine, Sasha, now living in the port city of Petrodor