STELLAR INTELLIGENCE had a mission for which only the best would do. And in Dalisse Imbro, expert in the fine art of theft, they had found the best woman for the job. Her assignment was to travel to the planet Joelare, where, along with two other part-time agents of S.I., she would challenge the top-level security surrounding the exotic vacationland known as the Mists of the Ages to obtain secret documents vital to S.I. It should have been an easy mission, but in this mist-shrouded land where vacationers' fondest fantasies could come true, harmless holiday entertainments were suddenly becoming deadly death traps. And when Dalisse found herself paired by the planet's tour organizers with a famous gladiator on a secret mission of his own, she was caught in an adventure where the terror was all too real - a living nightmare from which even her own unique talents might not prove enough to save her.