Newly revised and expanded edition. Interstellar flight has been outlawed — the great warpships that traveled between systems were found to be damaging the very fabric of the universe. Isolated by the ban, the Draconian system has become decadent, strange — and foul. Dominated by corporate guilds called bods, Draconian society has built its economy on slavery and assassination. Magen, a former assassin, rebels when her husband is taken by slavers, and sets out to do whatever it takes to get him back — even if it means destroying the entire Draconian civilization