When Konner O'Hara unearthed a tracking device hidden in his spaceship--undoubtedly by his own ruthless ex-wife--he had no w ay to tell whether his discovery had come too late. The brothers had thought they'd found a safe haw en on this oft-the-star-charts planet w here they'd taken refuge from the Imperial Military Police, the law and order forces of the Galactic Terran Empire. In the months since their landing, the O'Haras had made a place for themselves among the locals--lost colonists who had returned to a hunter-gatherer level of society. Revered as gods for the technology they'd brought, the brothers had defeated a treacherous priest called Hanassa, who'd ruled in the name of the dragon Simurgh, a terrifying, legendary creature that demanded human sacrifice.