Branded as a pirate, fitted with a shock collar, and separated from her parents, who've been sentenced to death--could the situation get any worse for thirteen-year-old Megan Willis?Much worse. Megan's prisoner ship is attacked, leaving her the lone survivor stranded on a strange planet, with only a gem called a dragon's eye to let her know her mother still lives. When Megan goes searching for the captain's kidnapped son, she finds more than she bargained for in a city rife with slave traders and plagued by storms that turn friends into foes.Megan longs to search for her parents' ship--the Astral Dragon--and discover the secrets of the dragon's eye, but she can't leave behind the child slaves she meets on Delta Ninety-eight. Yet rescuing them will entangle Megan in secrets darker than she ever dreamed of.