The planet Korar was a glittering jewel of a world home to the galaxy&s wealthiest people but the jewel had a flaw the huge slum called the Dipple where the misfits the penniless the hopeless eked out a wretched existence--a fate which two young men hoped to escape Troy Horan leaped at the chance to work in a shop in an upscale neighborhood offering exotic creatures from other worlds to the wealthy He thought his luck had changed--until his employer was murdered & Troy had to hide in the mysterious ruins left by a vanished alien race; ruins which explorers had entered & vanished Nik Kolherne had a face so hideously scarred that he wore a mask to cover it Then he was recruited by a mysterious figure who offered Nik a new face--if in return Nik would make a young heir think he was someone else Now he was the only hope of the young heir&s survival--if they could survive on a planet veiled in eternal night & swarming with deadly predators