On her first trading trip, 17-year-old Danielle gets shipwrecked on a mysterious island where the inhabitants are being enslaved by ape-like monsters called the Deformed, and have no way out of the oppression. Danielle must lend her help to secure an escape, before the Deformed learn of her existence.
To save her tribe from going bankrupt, the chief’s daughter, Samantha, volunteers to go on a dangerous mission for one of the three aristocrats. A mission that, if completed, will certainly lead two aristocrats to ruin and war. When Samantha inevitably gets caught, she is spared from the gallows by a group of peacekeepers, who offer her a chance at redemption aboard their ship, the Beacon. While on board, Samantha learns that the Beacon isn’t the safest ship in the world, after all…
