Kylie Rhoads is a junker. She makes her living journeying the stars, salvaging abandoned ships left over from pirate attacks on the advantage from the Gedri system. A number of the hulls are legal for the acquiring, most aren’t.

Whenever a salvage job goes bad, Kylie finds herself in the incorrect end of a gun. The hand holding that weapon? The SA Space Pressure, just the people Kylie really wants to prevent. To avoid prison, Kylie makes a offer to look deep into the Gedri System and rescue a straightforward girl. But out on the fringe, nothing is as it seems.

With her ex acting as the military liaison, Kylie takes her crew for the most dangerous mission of their lives. Recovery the girl, defeat the crime syndicate, and pray the armed forces holds up their end of the bargain.