Fresh out of the academy, police detective Lyndon Bates is eager for his first big assignment. But he couldn't imagine how big it was going to be: Investigating the murder of Crenshaw Connelly, the galaxy's biggest reality star, on the grounds of a secretive religious order on another planet. And there's a catch: Only women are allowed inside.

Lyndon is subjected to cutting-edge technology and ventures onto planet Halcyon as a woman. She soon realizes the question of who killed Crenshaw is only one of the mysteries lurking within the walls of this paradise-like convent, where no one seems to age, and Lyndon isn't alone in not being what she seems.