Kidnapped.  Enslaved. Trapped on an unfamiliar world far from home.

Fifteen-year-old Janai escapes her oppressors and volunteers to lead others to freedom. In addition to the dangers she faces on a hostile and alien planet, her new healing gifts can be deadly not only to her patients but also to herself.

To complicate matters, her life-mate urges have appeared and she finds herself attracted to a boy from her home planet. She must ignore those feelings and concentrate on the dangerous quest ahead of her.

Will she succeed?  Or is the free-zone merely a fanciful story spread by desperate children? Janai risks her life to find out.