Amid swirling allegiances and changing loyalties at the outer reaches of the Confederation empire, the Lost Legion struggles to keep the peace and prevent the planets from falling to a ruthless dictator. Protector Alena Redruth will stop at nothing to add the dual system of Larix and Kura to his holdings.
And the Legion s intelligence officer, Njangu Yoshitaro, will let nothing get in his way of infiltrating the system s upper echelons of government. Within the delicately played game of spying, there are plots within plots within plots . . .