Kris Bjornsen has come quite a distance since alien slave boats scooped her up in Denver with a large number of others. Dropped away on an evidently uninhabited world with the rest, she has fallen deeply in love with Zainal, a renegade Catteni, and made a comfortable lifestyle for herself and her fresh family members. But she feels a soldier’s duty to flee Botany and rejoin the struggle for independence. As the Eosi overlords continue steadily to drop captives on Botany, the colonists learn that there are independence fighters on every captured globe, and Earth is definitely full of storage compartments of level of resistance. There are also rebels among the warlike Catteni. Now the colonists possess the technology they have to get back to battle with the lethal Eosi – with a shock strike in the enslaved the world itself!