Joy Abara is a commoner from the lowly planet Hali, living a simple life-- apart from the notoriety that being Kindred to the nobility's most infamous playboy brings. Duke Felix Hamdi has a plan to exasperate his noble family to the point that they agree to let him choose his own future and finally meet his Kindred face-to-face. When the royal family is assassinated, Felix is next in line for the throne... and accused of the murders. Someone will stop at nothing until he's dead, which means they'll target Joy, too. They steal a spacecraft and flee, crashlanding on a strange backward planet called Earth. -- adapted from jacket