Synopsis: Jaiman Zarachek and the Sisters of Khoda

Weaponmaster Initiate Jaiman Zarachek is perhaps the single most dangerous being in the entire world and is completely oblivious to it. He denies his Saloii heritage every chance he can, seemingly more interested in fitting in and meeting as many girls as possible. However, when an attempt is made on the life of an ambassador’s daughter, Jaiman is called upon to help escort the girl safely back to her people, the generally reviled Kos, that may cause him to rethink what it means to be who he is.

Ziba Bakhar remembers the fall of her people and the loss of her homeland. The last of the elite warrior-maidens known as the Khoda Sisterhood, she is bitter and angry at the second-class world citizens they have become. Reviled for generations, the Kos were once a powerful force that dominated the inner sea until ten years prior when an unnamed cataclysm known as the Disaster forced them to leave their homelands. The nightmare of the Disaster visits Ziba nearly every night. Until she meets Jaiman Zarachek.

After a disastrous introduction and several tenuous confrontations during the journey, the two find themselves unwillingly partnered together when they are separated from the escort party after an attack. Lost in the western wild lands known as the Ramble, Jaiman and Ziba stumble upon the attackers and track them west. Along the way they learn to trust and admire one another as they struggle to survive the wilderness while uncovering a dark plot swirling around that ambassador that threatens to plunge the whole inner sea into war, leaving only Jaiman and Ziba to stop it.