Misilina has finished her training at the Academy on verindon and hopes to prove that she’s as good an agent as her father, Keridan. However, her first assignment is guarding Lord Jolan—her childhood tormentor and the son of Overlord Ardon—who is making a planetary visit to Darsair with his bride-to-be, Mandine, to help the Darsairian government improvement conditions for the mine workers. But when the minors stage an uprising and attempt to kill Jolan, can Misilina and her fellow agents keep Jolan and Mandine alive?