Ten years after being framed for a massacre, Captain Rhopperson Dillver commands a crew of outcasts aboard the Black Daredevil, running cargo too dangerous for anyone else. When a mysterious job offers him the only lead to his true enemy, he discovers his cargo isn't a weapon-it's an ancient intelligence that chooses not to destroy. Now hunted by the man who framed him, Rhopperson Dillver must trust his broken family, a ruthless AI learning to care, and a living singularity that just wants to go home-or lose everything a second time.
A crew of traumatized outcasts takes one last job hauling a weapon that refuses to be used. But when the cargo bonds with them and the man who destroyed their captain closes in, they must decide: keep running, or fight for the only family any of them have ever had.