Elizabeth Yeager: spacer, machinist, temp. Unemployed now. Registering for work on a bypassed, dying star base where the big ships no longer call -

Until the Loki docks. A spook: a mercenary warship freelancing as a space bounty hunter with a captain who's not too worried about proper papers or charges pending when he hires -

Bet Yeager: an outsider in a crew of brutalised misfits operating on the edge of legality and the far rim of the interstellar civilisation.