Synopsis: Zira, a roguish explorer and treasure-hunter from a medieval world, is drawn into the multiverse-spanning machinations of a charming, amoral mystic. She finds herself exploring the between-space known as Qalidar and strange echoes of her own home world. While dealing with a personal loss, she discovers disturbing things about the forces that shaped her universe and the inhuman intelligences that are trying to warp it even further.