Tom Kropp's novels all started as short stories he wrote that were published in well-known magazines such as Chiron Review, Churches Children and Daddies, Down in the Dirt, Horror Zine, Listening Eye, Evening Street Review, Freedom Fiction, Dark Harbor, Blood Moon Rising, Phantomania, J Journal, Lowlife Lit, Conceit, Muscle and Fitness, Outdoor Life and many other magazines.

This book is an action-packed ride full of exciting events and charismatic characters involving both sword and sorcery and futuristic advanced technologies on an alien world that future humans discover in their star ship exploration. Temerity is a beautiful humanoid striped skin woman on an alien planet named Nagora when humans in star ships and the advanced species they're at war with crash on Temerity's world. Many cultures clash as futuristic technology and sword and sorcery meet on a distant alien world.