In a stolen space yacht, three people have been found eviscerated--the grisly signature of an alien vengeance killing. Moments later, the border patrol halts another ship launched out of the moon's orbit--it's passengers are two human children, kidnapped by the most ruthless aliens in the universe. Both ships are linked to a woman on the run--a Disappeared relocated to the inhospitable landscape of Mars. A reluctant outlaw with a bounty on her head and a detective on her case, she's abut to teach all of them a lesson: It's dangerous to gamble with your life in a universe that rigs the game.