Agent Kira Wood's dreams of traveling among the stars come true when the Interplanetary Peace Alliance assigns her to be an attaché to a Z'Dhia, a member of a mysterious sect of aliens from the planet Idris-Sarra. During the Great Galactic War, more than a hundred volumes of the Book of Dreams, annotated collections of scientific knowledge far advanced than anything found in the galaxy, were stolen from Idris-Sarra under the occupation of the dreaded Ro Kan Empire. The Z'Dhian's only task is to retrieve the stolen volumes and return them home. But Kira gets more than she bargained for when she learns that the Z'Dhia she was assigned to will do almost anything, including breaking the rules, to retrieve a volume from a Varmitian aristocrat, whose lust for the power he hopes to obtain from it might threaten peace in the galaxy. Traveling in the Z'Dhia's space and time-traveling machine, the nRoom, Kira and the Z'Dhia face danger and intrigue in the bazaars and underground markets of Aderna, on an estate starship run by killer automatons, and in the remote, arctic citadel of Avarnya on the planet Varma, gaining trust and respect along the way as they become each other's greatest ally.