A dangerous tech warlord. A devious damsel. Is this smuggler mage getting paid or played? Baltimore, 2055. Ex-special ops agent Kurt Carter refuses to resort to killing any longer. Though the mage isn't above skirting the law with a little magic to smuggle goods through the interstellar portals and back to Earth. But he never expected to use the Newton's gates on a ransom mission for the ex-wife he can't seem to forget... With the help of a trigger-happy...