Fifteen-year-old Sabrina Azriel Coles dreams of nothing but getting into the famed Interplanetary Administration Academy so she can become a starship shuttle pilot. Unfortunately, her overbearing father will hear nothing of it. He is determined to keep his younger daughter on his agriplex on Deidra VII, and when the IA Search Team comes to interview Sabrina as a possible candidate for entry into the academy, he summarily sends them away. Then Sabrina finds out the search team will be leaving the planet much earlier than expected: She has only four days to convince them to re-open her application and interview her. But with distractions from a love interest, and run-ins with a popular girl who has also set her sights on the same boy, and with the deadly Spore Fever on the rise on the planet, Sabrina is caught in a vortex of chaos as she fights her way toward her dream.