Introduction

The year is 2127. Three corporations control the world, leaving governments struggling to survive. Echo Strand is fed up with her job at TransCom Transportation Parts and joins up with the United States Space Agency. On the way home from a routine freight haul to Mars, she discovers a shocking secret about her captain.

Plot Background

In the meantime, the world economy is on the verge of collapse, with a war between the U.S. government and the corporations not far behind. But the failing economy and the corporate war are the least of Captain Dana Stewart's problems. Her enemies are less visible and more dangerous.