In a World Renowned Within a Galaxy Full of Wonders, a Crime Within a War. for One Man It Means a Desperate Flight, and a Search for the One - Maybe Two - People Who Could Clear His Name. for His Brother It Means a Life Lived Under Constant Threat of Treachery and Murder. and for Their Sister, It Means Returning to a Place She'd Thought Abandoned Forever. Only the Sister is Not What She Once Was; Djan Seriy Anaplian Has Become an Agent of the Culture's Special Circumstances Section, Charged With High-Level Interference in Civilisations Throughout the Greater Galaxy. Concealing Her New Identity - and Her Particular Set of Abilities - Might Be a Dangerous Strategy. in the World to Which Anaplian Returns, Nothing is Quite As It Seems; and Determining the Appropriate Level of Interference in Someone Else's War is Never a Simple Matter.