Chudami is a silent planet. Empty of animals or insects, all that grows on it are flowering trees. When refugees fleeing Earth crash-land onto Chudami, they--desperate to survive its toxic environment--forge a bio-dome out of these trees and their flowers. There they shelter themselves, only to develop beneath the dome's branches an equally toxic society: cruel, authoritarian, and choked with fear.Eight hundred and fifty-seven years after the Crash Landing, Mayah is born into the bio-dome's upper caste. While a prophecy predicted her birth, no one--least of all Mayah--truly knows her destiny. Is Mayah the promised child messiah? Or is she a pawn in the political struggles that threaten to consume the bio-dome?It's a time of increasing unease. The Free Serfs, an oppressed anti-caste system movement, is daily growing in strength. It manages to get one of its own agents, Sukren, assigned to Mayah as her handler. Commanded to secretly manipulate her towards Free Serf goals, Sukren lives his double life on a knife's edge.This is Mayah's story, as she starts to suspect that Sukren is more than just her beloved guardian. This is Sukren's story, as he struggles between his loyalty to the Free Serfs and his love for Mayah, the girl he is raising like his own daughter.For more from J Eves check out http://www.j-eves.com.