For fourteen years, Thracius "Tracy" Belmanor has struggled to make a life for himself after the woman he loved ruthlessly betrayed him. Court martialed, disgraced, and removed from the military, he scrapes out a living as the captain of a small trading vessel smuggling black market goods beneath the elite noses of the Solar League. Princess Mercedes de Arango has problems of her own. She has failed to produce an heir to secure the...