Heiress Averie Winston has traveled to Chiarrin, where her father is leading the army that has just invaded this exotic land. She is delighted to be reunited with her fiance, who is an officer in the army, and she is fascinated by Chiarrin, so different from her home country. But as she falls under the spell of this colorful new land, she begins to question the ethics of imperialism...and she finds herself attracted to a soldier named Ket Du?kai, a man so different from anyone else she knows that he is changing the way she views the world.