A beautiful young girl, swept away as a slave to the brutal, lethal Desert Sand raiders. The Scorpion Prince is pius and unyeilding, yet she still can't help herself from wondering if there's a softer side to him? ...Kaia is completely content with her simple life in her quiet town of Bleakburn, living with her adoptive mother and running their inn, The Rusty Nail, together. She enjoys meeting travelers and hearing the tales of wondrous places, never dreaming that she would actually see them. Everything in her life changes when their tiny village is suddenly raided by the Razaak, the Desert people. Bleakburn is burned to the ground and Kaia is taken into servitude of her Razaak captors. The journey back to the citidel is long, dangerous and grueling. Not only is she fighting to stay alive, Kaia has caught the eye of the leader of the raiding party, the high prince of the Razaaks himself.