Lanik Muellers birthright as heir to planet Treasons most powerful rulership will never be realized. He is a rada radical regenerative. A freak who can regenerate injured flesh . . . and trade extra body parts to the Offworld oppressors for iron. On a planet without hard metalsor the means of escapeiron is power in the race to build a spacecraft. Iron is the promise of freedomwhich may never be fulfilled as Lanik uncovers a treacherous conspiracy beyond his imagination. Now charged with a mission of conquestand exileLanik devises a bold and dangerous plan . . . a quest that may finally break the vicious chain of rivalry and bloodshed that enslaves the people of Treason as the Offworld never could.