When Ana von Lugh stepped between a warrior and her victim, she did not intend to break through 3,000 years of Imperialist doctrine by becoming the first of her kind. In succeeding where others failed, she risks her life and sanity. As if soul bonding to seven members of a healing clan, wasn't enough of a challenge, she adopted six of the deadliest warriors to ever trek through the 'verse – her reason, she was only trying to help.

The new Clan retreats to the stars to save Ana's life. As they travel to the Rim worlds and begin learning about each other, Ana is forced to accept that her life is no longer her own. The members of Clan Koof'na had lived as out-caste, stripped of place and honor, for nearly a year before they were claimed as clan. Now that place and honor is returned to them they are determined to keep their healer and their clan alive. Despite the fact that their clan leader is filled with the fire of her people and dives into trouble faster than they can act to keep her out of it.

If it wasn't enough that she wasn't allowed to explore anything on her own, now Ana had to have two body guards with her at all times. Aside from the lack of privacy and disturbing presence of seven other voices in her head, Ana's biggest problem is she has no idea what to do. What do you do when failure is a death sentence?