Charming, self-made security professional Rafe McTavish owes a debt of honor. Though estranged from his family for fourteen years, he's forced to investigate his tycoon brother-in-law's purchase of a dilapidated deep-space mining station. At the station he meets the secretive Kama Bhatia, a computer hacker and corporate spy who will stop at nothing to rescue a secret document that could change the galaxy. Cut off, trapped amidst hostility and distrust, Rafe and Kama must work together to unravel a web of fraud, deception, and murder before a tide of violence overtakes them.