When the Cleansing comes, nightmares feel like paradise. With secrets stirring in her that could destroy the world, all Gulamira wants is to escape the prison colony. But in a split-second decision, she throws away her chance at freedom to rescue an orphan girl from enslavement to a brothel. In doing so, she dooms them both. The Cleansing takes them, a prison ship designed to be hell incarnate. This time, she knows there is no escape. If Gulamira is to save the child and herself, she must grapple with a power and a past she has long forsaken. But there are dark forces at work that want to control the dangerous knowledge she holds. If she doesn't do anything, they will. She has no friends and no weapons. She has only herself. Time will tell if that's enough.