To survive, Simsa must sell her jewelry - trinkets that came from the Old One, her dead guardian. Fon now Simsa is alone; with her black skin, silvery hair and clawed hands and feet, she is a breed apart from the Burrow folk who dwell beneath the city of Kuxortal.
Thom, a starman, knows that the trinkets are connected to the strange disappearance of his brother, and he is determined to unravel the mystery.
