A few moments of lowered values results in teen Nadenya being sent away for two months. Her father refuses her pleas to let her stay, instead banishing her to a world of sand, sun, and relentless heat in the outcasted barren lands. It isn't what Nadenya thought she deserved for a little indiscretion, but her father's Old Order word is rule in the austere city.But Nadenya's two-month trip by train through dry desert lands is cut short. At sword point, the train is attacked, every valuable emptied, and the best of everything carried away to be laid at the feet of the master of an oasis stronghold. Among those valuables is a very frightened Nadenya.War and history are not pretty, despite who tells or rewords the stories, and Nadenya, cultured and groomed for marriage to the highest ranks of new steam-industrialized Angola Proper, finds herself veiled and draped in silk and silver. In a hidden world behind lattice and lace she discovers the truth of a forgotten history.With rumors of war and old scars remembered, she also realizes she is not the only captive secreted in the desert haven.Post World War IV.