A cosmic vendetta began centuries before Masato Igarashi Storm was born. His grandfather attacked the planet Prefactl and carried out a bloody massacre, freeing the enslaved human—sangari—from their lord-sanagari. But one of the sanagari survived. The young heir of the Norbon clan swore to take revenge on the Storm family and their soldiers. He devised a devious plan that might require several generations to carry out.
And now, Gnei, Masato’s father, is forced to fight for the riches stored in the fiery half of the planet of Blackmir. While powerful private armies from across the cosmos converge for battle along the narrow Shadow Line that separates blazing hell from life-giving shadow, Gnei’s half-brother Michael runs his own game—a fatal game of the traitor.