Emma Rain is a top-notch pilot looking for work to get away from a frontier mining system, but she has lots of secrets to hide. Kramer is the greedy, sadistic captain of the trade vessel Night Time in Shanghai, living well outside of the reach of the law. Where thousands of human colonised systems spread across the galactic arm and large corporations, democratic governments and religious cults vie to control the resources of entire systems, revenge can be a long time coming - a dish served as cold as the harsh vacuums of space...and sometimes things get complicated...