Long ago, in the Beklan Empire, beautiful, fifteen-year-old Maia was a peasant girl growing up in poverty.
Seduced by her step-father, then abducted by slave traders to be sold as a concubine in the profligate city of Bella, her hopes would have been dismal indeed had it not been for Occula, the tough and knowing black girl who befriended her.
How Maia became a secret agent for the corrupt Leopards, rulers of Bella, who sent her on a desperate assignment; how she met the handsome young Zen-Kursk, their sworn enemy; the mortal dangers and terrible encounters she underwent for a love which seemed lost for ever; and the outcome she achieved against all odds………..
