Charlie Barnes and her partner Steven Waldner are ordinary free traders as far as the rest of the Galaxy knows. In reality, they work as undercover agents for the free planet of Libertad seeking out any threats to their homeworld. Traveling aboard their starship Dauntless, With the aid of Dauntless' AI, Amie, Charlie and Steven learn of a fearsome alliance between a megacorporation that has sought economic hegemony over most of human-colonized space...