As the widow of a Nyterian dictator, Val Saunders has been relieved of duty on Alchany after narrowly avoiding Extraction. Now, with the help of the Warden, she finds herself reunited with her birth mother in 1645, surrounded by her friends, and in the process of a Transformation. But with a civil war raging and a history-changing witch-hunt in full swing, things are about to get a little heated -