Senior Agent Dana Manley is busy and content teaching her students and preparing to take over leadership at the Faction when an old acquaintance starts acting up. Daxton Faris, Director of the Interstellar Service Agency, seems more and more involved in politics. Everything points to him overthrowing the Senate. Manley gets burned trying stop him and tries to enlist her old colleague Mark Henders only to find him dead. Together with Raine, her trusted friend, she gathers allies to set an end to Faris’ plan. If she fails, the fate of her children and whole generations of humanity might be on the line…