Pursued across space by the ultra-secret Department of the Interior and hunted relentlessly by the galaxy-wide Juntavas syndicate, former Agent of Change Val Con yos'Phelium and his ex-mercenary wife Miri Robertson flee across space, seeking help from Miri's kin on Lytaxin. Meanwhile, Clan Korval is in action, scattered by the newly-invoked Plan B and searching for the long-lost Val Con. Back on Lytaxin, Miri's homecoming is interupted by a full-scale Yxtrang planetary invasion. And then things start to get interesting ...