Gretchen Anderssen, freelance archeologist and specialist in First Sun artifacts, has been hired by her old mentor Green Hummingbird, agent of the Mirror Service, to join him in investigating an ancient weapon that could be used to destroy the interplanetary empire of Anuhuac, centered in Mexico City and the result of a centuries-old alliance between the Japanese samurais and the Aztecs.

"A Tom Doherty Associates book."