Maia is a fifteen-year-old peasant beauty growing up in poverty beside lake serrelind. Seduced by her stepfather and betrayed by her jealous mother, maia finds herself in the hands of slave-traders to be sold as a concub...Maia is a fifteen-year-old peasant beauty growing up in poverty beside lake serrelind. Seduced by her stepfather and betrayed by her jealous mother, maia finds herself in the hands of slave-traders to be sold as a concubine. She attracts the attention of general Kembri who uses her to obtain information from her admirers and her adventures uncover a plot for civil war.