In this exciting space adventure, fourteen-year-old Jack Morgan and Draycos, a poetwarrior Kda dragon who can hide himself as a tattoo on Jacks back, have their backs to the wall. Brought together by a twist of fate, these two have been through a lot of scrapes, risking death and imprisonment on worlds far and wide, seeking justice for Jack and information that might save Draycoss people from a genocidal ambush. But now, Neverlin, the man who killed Jacks parents and destroyed the scout fleet of which Draycos was the sole survivor, is about to ambush millions of Kda refugees, and kill them with a Death weapon that kills any living being within its range. To prevent Neverlin from eradicating the Kda race, Jack and Draycos must somehow disable the Death.