Master Trader Shan yos'Galan and his daughter Padi travel to Colemeno, a world just emerged from an isolating dust cloud, to scout it as a new hub for Korval's trade routes. Colemeno's strange ambient energy amplifies psychic gifts and splits its people into three uneasy factions, and Padi, coming into powers of her own, finds herself drawn to Tekelia, a leader of the wild-talented Haosa, even as the port audit she's there to run turns up a history of buried violence.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources