The fate of his people rests in her hands. When the penitentiary ship she's incarcerated in crashes onto an alien planet, Kira and a handful of survivors find refuge in The City in the Caldera alongside its Fire Valos inhabitants. But the sadistic experiments performed on her by the prison's scientist make the heat intolerable for her. When the opportunity to go to the frozen city of E'Lek presents itself, Kira believes she'll finally...