A saboteur on the loose.
A target on her back.
An enemy, wearing the face of a friend.

Faith believed in the benevolence of the Company, until it used her code to frame her lover, then tried to kill them both. She left Home World for independent planet Iona, hoping to ditch her traumatic past. But now a mysterious someone is attacking her new home planet with a chemical that throws victims into stasis and turns them blue. Faith sees the Company’s fingerprints all over it, and when the Company suddenly sends someone to "help," all Faith's alarm bells go off.

Linking the Company to the attacker might save Iona from both. But Faith can't do it alone, and her prospective allies all have secret agendas and are pointing the finger at each other. Should she trust the new arrival who's "nice guy" persona doesn't match up with rumors of a shady past? Or the frosty Operational Security pro, who arrives heavily armed and strangely disinterested in operational security?

And then there’s her long-lost lover, who lands on Iona full of secrets but no straight answers about what he’s been up to--or why he disappeared without a word all those years ago.

She's determined to stop the attacker and save here home. And even though her chances of success seem slim, she’s staking her life on success because failure isn’t an option—if she fails, there’s nowhere to run and everyone on Iona will pay the price.