Toemeka, code name Star Rider, is a Coalition undercover operative sent to Borko, a planet strategically important in the interplanetary war. Her team's mission is to work with the local resistance in Jaipar to overthrow the despot, General Bhandar, and free its people. This assignment will prove to be Toemeka's greatest challenge as she stoves to come to terms with her painful past, develop her unique spiritual gifts, and regain a love that has spanned lifetimes. Years ago the powerful sorcerer Samrat Condor destroyed Toemeka's own world and his claws of power are not about to release their strangle hold on Jaipar. Condor controls his apprentice General Bhandar as well as Commander Cadmus Rochambeau whose jealous interest in Toemeka could destroy her. Toemeka struggles against these opponents with her Coalition team and Michio Kimes a spiritual warrior trained to fight sorcery.