On the planet Rhona Lo, in the Dominion of the Solar Empress, the young woman Ember leads a peaceful, ordinary life:  working at a bar, having fun with her friends, arguing with rivals, and taking life as it comes. Then one day the immortal Princess who rules her planet is murdered and her ordinary life becomes something extraordinary as she and her friends and rivals are drawn into a maelstrom of consequences, where they must work together to find their destinies.