Book Two of the Queen of the Star Pirates saga The saga continues. As the adventures of one trader draw to a close, another's adventures are about to begin. Nicole Wilkes, native of the isolated Terran Alliance colony of New Houston, finds herself suddenly exiled from her homeworld. What starts as a case of local corruption quickly develops into a conspiracy spread across multiple planets on the Alliance Rim. Yet as her enemies grow in number, so do her allies as her story becomes intertwined with the Pirate Queen herself...