Taken from her world for the pleasure of another, Tara an eighteen year old schoolgirl from Earth finds herself naked in the hold of the Dark Star. Told she is owned by one of the most powerful men in the Imperium. Tara is given the option of being his pleasure slave, or the coldness of deep space. During the voyage across billions of miles, she is taught the sexual arts that her future depends on.
Brought to him and kneeling naked at his feet, she waits on her future. Inside the kennel of beauty, tranquillity, and forbidden secrets, she learns that the once mighty Imperium is crumbling. Two factions fight for the spoils, the Emperor with his Battle Fleet, and the last of the old republic, the Mercantile Templars. In a power struggle that crosses the Galactic Empire. Tara the simple pleasure slave, is lost in the swirling vortex of the two fighting protagonists, and their race to find the secrets of the ancients.