After two years on the planet Kaùsan in the Triangulum galaxy, Zyrah McGregor is finally ready to return home to face her uncle, Ziad Faheem, the man who killed her grandparents, parents, and younger brother.However, it will not be easy. Ziad has taken over her father's business and become rich, and politically powerful as a deputy councilor in the League of Arab Worlds.Also, the Federation military lawyer assigned to her case is none other than Staff Judge Advocate General, Craig Larson, the man who directed the extinction of all self-replicating nanomedical robots in the universe, including those in the McGregor family.Can Zyrah find justice for her family and still prevent JAG Larson from discovering the illegal medbots hidden inside Marc and her?