The stench of the Jareneiks has always made Jahni want to gag...too bad she is on a ship with 25,000 of them A career placement test is bringing hope of changing her whole life for the better, but little does she know that her long lost best friend Sloane is about to come back into the picture and take her back to her home planet of Zelle. There is only one catch...Zelle isn't like she left it. There's been a war with the Ratillians. Her Mother is missing, her Father is imprisoned far away on another planet, and her brother and sister are being held hostage while their home planet dies. Jahni is the only one who has a chance of saving them.