While vacationing on the world of New Eden, naval officer Kris Longknife finds business mixing with pleasure when she, due to her military status, must attend a social function, where she once again finds herself the target of unknown enemies who have a personal vendetta against her.

"Black Jack" Geary orders the Alliance Fleet back to the Lakota Star System, where it had almost been destroyed by the Syndics, in a desperate gamble to stay one step ahead of the enemy.

Calliope Reaper-Jones, a.k.a. Death's Daughter, must go up against the Devil himself when her older sister Thalia puts the Reaper family business in jeopardy. By the author of Cat's Claw.