Vetrasian scientist Mila Groso built a career out of developing cures for the galaxy's deadliest diseases. After her husband and daughter are murdered in cold blood, she makes it her mission to find a cure for death itself. Mila isn't the only one interested in her research, though. The planet's religious leader sends his minions to stop her from negating the existence of an afterlife. A mysterious mercenary threatens her life unless she hands the research over. It's obvious too many people know what she's doing. Fighting to stay alive, Mila must fend off both groups with their diametrically...

Max McCannor and his friends all suffer under the cruelty of their orphanage headmaster. Finally reaching a breaking point and spurred on by the hope of finding his long-lost father, Max convinces the others to flee their captors and head west. But the headmaster has much to lose, and hires one of his former orphans to track the children down and return them to the orphanage before they ESCAPE for good.