He had been exiled from Mirl'da V as a boy, sent to a green, civilized warm planet and trained in peacekeeping arts by the interplanetary navy.  Anen Kurharay, the fourth-born son of a powerful Mirl'da dynasty, had nearly forgotten the sire that scorned him...and the strange, cold planet of his birth.

But now Anen's father and brothers lay dead, slain by an enemy's cruel hand.  Anen had been summoned back to Mirl'da V to rule---and to do battle according to the ancient laws of this barbaric kingdom.  Now, fired by raw courage, he must learn the ways of the warrior and pick up sword and stun gun against piratical overlords---against the merciless fury of an ice planet---and against impossible odds!