There is never a dull moment with Sierra Shalinsky’s job as a Galactic Emergency Medical Technician. She is on call to help during galactic disasters. Sierra has a no-nonsense attitude and is also the vocalist for the symphonic metal band Maranadda and an interspecies relationships advocate. After responding to a distress signal from the uncharted Shardaa Sector, an eerie feeling comes over Sierra when she discovers odd feather symbols. 
When Sierra is confronted by a strange being and a familiar eeriness, she goes missing for seven months. Waking up from a coma in the mysterious Shardaa Sector, she flees her captors. The history of the Humolfan people is revealed to Sierra. She learns the history of how they were banished after Siiteper Affelum’s genocide campaign 1,000 years earlier. Sierra is persuaded to advocate for the Humolfans and their repatriation back into galactic society. After receiving a Feathers of Shardaa tattoo, Sierra is brutally assaulted by the Dissident Faction, but is rescued by a mysterious man. Sierra is finally found by a Syrenthian Government fleet. She speaks at the Humolfan Repatriation Conference to advocate for the Humolfans. Through a series of dramatic events, Sierra falls in love with her alluring rescuer.