Velocity Wrachant, owner and captain of the merchant starship Susan Calvin, is broke and stranded on a Drift station, when she is offered what seems like a simple job: to escort young Brontë Ikeda into Republic space and help her retrieve several bonded-labor children.
While Velocity is tempted by the fee Brontë offers - which is enough to clear her debts - she also knows that Ikeda House, a powerful Combine, just had a major coup; and both she and her crew suspect the story they're being told by the Combine child is not the whole story.
Velocity takes the gig, but it takes her into the heart of Combine territory, a place she fled almost twenty years earlier. What is the price she and her shipmates may end up paying for this job?
- ISBN10 1936460831
- ISBN13 9781936460830
- Publish Date 11 June 2018
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Candlemark & Gleam
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 278
- Language English