Every man under the sun wants freedom, but even the sun casts shade. Rusco Riten; servant by day, thief by night, has lived his entire life in the shade. He longs for a freedom he has never had but soon finds that even freedom has its cost.
An aeon ago, British space faring settlers found a new home in a habitable system in a completely different galaxy. With most knowledge of their home planet merely faint myths and legends, their world is very different from ours.
