Kyjta is Stained, and while she’s not alone, her stain is different.

When you’re Stained, patches of skin glisten like liquid starlight, and somehow, his creatures find you.   

In a world of curfews and body raiders, where people huddle in bunkers to avoid being taken by the invading Rhemans, nineteen-year-old Kyjta has one objective: to rescue her young charge, Calipsie. She believes that a wrong must be put right—and, as one of the Stained, marked for quelling by the Rhemans, she has been wronged. Forming an improbable alliance with the enemy, a Rheman named Kranik, Kyjta must not only rescue Calipsie, but also face down the Rheman overlord who’s taken a disturbing interest in her.