In a world renowned within a galaxy full of wonders a crime within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister it means returning to a place shed thought abandoned forever. Only the sister is not what she once was; Djan Seriy Anaplian has become an agent of the Cultures Special Circumstances section charged with high-level interference in civilisations throughout the greater galaxy. Concealing her new identity - and her particular set of abilities - might be a dangerous strategy. In the world to which Anaplian returns nothing is quite as it seems; and determining the appropriate level of interference in someone elses war is never a simple matter.
