Still tender from his horsewhipping while a prisoner on Sirius, Nick Walker is back on the job. But he's on light duty, which doesn't leave him much to do, so he finds himself helping his fianc?e, defense attorney Victoria Cross, defend a pair of bank robbers who said they robbed a bank in...self-defense! Victoria Cross, once a Federation prosecutor and now a Colonial defense attorney, is nothing if not passionate about her work. Although she...