"As a boy, Lt. Caleb Söderman’s colony was attacked by savage aliens. Now, as he joins with humanity’s greatest war hero to stop the Union from betraying his home to the enemy, the Union’s sent their best woman to bring them down at all costs."
When Aaron Odissian meets a young woman who has crashed into his quiet, rural junkyard he and Pogontan technological artisan Marcellus are plunged into a conflict threatening church, state, and the fabric between the stars themselves.