Jane Warren is content. She might not be on the bestsellers list, yet, but her sci fi is selling steadily, and she has her little cabin in the woods where she explores the stars of her dreams. Her fantasies become reality, however, when the real bad guys decide she knows more than she should about life beyond Earth's atmosphere, and her dreams become a living nightmare when she is kidnapped, whisked away to be questioned relentlessly about her sources for one of her books, the details of which too closely mirror a real-life military coup in progress. But when a group of real good guys comes to her rescue, Jane learns the true meaning of heroism as what starts out as a daring rescue of an innocent victim turns into a race to save an entire commonwealth of worlds.