Mataline Prescon has her head in the stars, and not just the twinkling kind. On her home planet of Quarry, she has spent fourteen years pining for her older brother's exciting life. She wants to a warrior known as a Star and will leave everything she knows behind to achieve that dream. But as the hardships range from nature to wicked foe and doubt inside her own heart, will she be able to find the life she always longed for? Or fall victim to the harsh reality that some dreams were not meant to come true?.