Kira Wood, a young, black cultural diplomat from the human settlement Beta-1, gets a plum assignment from the Intergalactic Peace Alliance. She's assigned to travel with a Z'Dhia as his attaché.

Z'Dhian are members of a mysterious sect of time and space traveling aliens from the Timbuktu-like planet Idris-Sarra. They are responsible for recovering volumes of the Book of Dreams, a collection of scientific writings that were stolen from their planet during its occupation under the Ro Kan Empire.

The normally enigmatic sect traveled alone, but the Z'Dhia Kira is assigned to caused an incident that nearly reignited a war between IPPA and the Ro Kannan. Years after the Galactic Wars, peace in the galaxy is still tenuous, and anything could shatter its delicate balance. So Kira's job? Keep an eye on the Z'Dhia and prevent another incident.

Known only as Z'Dhia, the alien intrigues her with his piercing silver eyes, dry sense of humor, and advanced technology that can whisk them from one planet to the next in a matter of seconds. But once they travel to the dusty markets of the planet Aderna, he violates a few of those rules. Wrong move. IPPA's strict rules are there for a reason, and she's got reports to file. But as their investigation takes them from the forbidden underground markets of Aderna, where anything and everything is for sale; to the ancestral starship of a deposed aristocrat, whose thirst for vengeance imperils them both, Kira realizes how high the stakes are in recovering those secretive volumes. For the Book of Dreams is more than just a series of ancient scientific journals. It contains knowledge so powerful that the aristocrat will commit anything, including murder, to crack open its secrets.

BONUS: Includes an excerpt chapter from Volume 2 of The Book of Dreams series, Menace from the Ro Kan Empire.