Death leaves a hole in all of us, a pain that never goes away. What happens, however, when a Master dies, leaving his slaves bereft of his control and guidance. Valerie Burbon and her friends come face to face with such trauma when death interupts the normal flow of their lives. How will the contend with the loss and pain that come? How will the slave herself, alone for the first time in years, deal with her unintended freedom? The death of a Master will touch all their lives.

Amber is a slave of House Grantlo, on the world of Destran.  Taken from her own world, one located in another dimension, she was brought to Destran to be trained to be one of the premier sex slaves in the world.  Having accepted her fate, in fact, reveling in it, her training continues.  But all is not well on Destran.  As the world enters the infamous burning times, political tensions are heating up to rival those of the surface of the world itself.  The Wizard's Guild has long known a secret, a secret that it's used to increase its power and wealth at the expense of the other political factions.  Amber soon finds herself drawn into the midst of the upcoming political turmoil when all she wishes is to be the best slave she can be.  While she desperately wants to be a good slave, as these troubles enter her life, she finds it harder and harder to not take sides.  For unlike all other slaves on Destran, Amber remembers her past, and the injustices that people can do to one another...