A deserter. A grifter. A stolen ship. And one last chance for freedom... With the remote Zeta Tau prison station about to be pounded into space dust - and with no help coming from Gaia's crumbling star empire - Captain Landon Beck races to release one particular inmate before she's abandoned to the tender mercies of the invading pirates and mercenaries. Thanks to that bit of temporary insanity - or maybe a crusading...