After a decade of cruising interstellar patrol ships, former Captain Chasidah Bergren, onetime Pride of the Sixth Fleet, finds herself court-martialed for a crime she didnβt commitβand shipped off to a remote prison planet from which no one ever escapes. But when she kills a brutal guard in an act of self-defense, someone even more dangerous emerges from the shadows.
Gabriel Sullivanβalpha mercenary, smuggler, and rogueβis supposed to be dead. Yet now this seductive ghost from Chazβs past is offering her a ticket to freedomβfor a price. Someone in the Empire is secretly breeding jukors: vicious and uncontrollable killing machines that have long been outlawed. Gabriel needs Chaz to help him stop the practice before it decimates imperial space. For Chaz, itβs a matter of survival. For Sully it means facing the truth about whoβand whatβhe really is. The mission means putting their lives on the lineβbut the tensions that heat up between them may be the riskiest part of all. For both of them, itβs a life-and-death battle where giving up the ghost just took on a whole new meaningβ¦
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