When the leading lights of high society on planet Apedra host their glittering three month social "season," there's nothing quite like it anywhere else in the Thousand Worlds. No visitor could help but be impressed by the formal dress balls, the beautiful mansions, the exquisite designer gowns, the sprawling country estates, and the glittering jewelry. And, let's not forget the most memorable happening of the season: the series of brutal, blood-soaked serial murders. Unfairly expelled from the elite ICARUS Academy for blocking her own powerful psychic abilities to screen herself from the...