Tess Bailey is running, piloting her ship through the dark reaches of space with a ragtag crew who've become her family, staying one step ahead of the authoritarian regime that would see her dead for what she knows. She's a rebel captain with a price on her head, navigating a galaxy where the wrong move means capture, interrogation, or worse—and she's been making the wrong moves her whole life, at least according to the brutal government that raised her. When a mysterious stranger with secrets of his own boards her ship, everything Tess has fought to protect hangs in the balance, because this isn't just another passenger looking for safe passage across the stars. This is someone who could unravel everything, who brings danger trailing in his wake even as he offers something Tess hasn't let herself want in years—a reason to stop running and start fighting back. Amanda Bouchet delivers a propulsive space opera that crackles with tension and heart, where loyalty is earned in the spaces between star systems and trust is the most dangerous cargo of all. It's a story about found family and the courage it takes to stand against impossible odds, about what happens when survival isn't enough anymore and you have to decide what's worth risking everything for.