What if a woman as strong and as complex as Eva Pern began her life as a
robot repair assistant, one threatened by a powerful peacekeeping force
that wants to take all that she has from her? The discovery ship,
Creative Fire, is on its way home from a multi-generational journey. But
home is nothing like the crew expected. They have been gone for
generations, and the system they return to is now home to technologies
and riches beyond their wildest dreams. But, they are immediately
oppressed and relegated to the lowest status imaginable, barely able to
interact with the technologies and people of the star station where they
dock, the Diamond Deep. Ruby Martin and her partner, Joel North, must
find a way to learn what they need to know and become more than they
have ever been--if they are to find a way to save their people.