The price of loyalty is pain.

After a vastly destructive war, Terra has been obliterated and humanity forced to spread through known space, outsiders in the galactic community that fears their talent for violence.

A servant of the alien Hegemony, the psionic sensitive Shay finds herself torn apart, left to bear the blame of an atrocity she did not commit. With the clock ticking on a stolen biological weapon, she becomes a fugitive hunting the traitors who would do the unthinkable. The pursuit comes with the aid of an eclectic starship crew, but when worlds collide, loyalties blur.

When all she wants is the truth to be known, Shay must confront a much larger web of lies and danger than she could have ever expected.