Uniting seven races on ten planets, the mighty Commonweath has only one enemy: the Procyons, a warlike race who thrive on aggression. A fragile truce between the two powers has ensured galactic peace - until Rieka Degahv, human captain of a commonwealth starship destroys a Procyon vessel in deep space.
Now charged with high treason, Rieka and her few remaining allies embark upon a desperate search that will take them into some of the highest political and military quarters - and into a high stakes duel of intergalactic intrigue that threatens to destroy far more than Rieka...
