5 in Burroughs's Martian Barsoom series. Tara, Princess of Helium, John Carter's impetuous and headstrong daughter, flies into one of Barsoom's rare but fierce storm defying the elements. But the Martian storm is only the beginning: hurled half a planet off course, she's threatened by grotesque flesh eating monsters and barbarous warriors. Is the mysterious Panthan warrior friend or foe? As hero battles for maiden in a deadly game of living chess, the pieces are fighting men and the stakes are life and death!