Some jobs pay.
Others come back to kill you.
Dani Flint used to take any contract that paid.
Not anymore.
Now she flies Blackwake, upgraded, faster than legal, and built for high-risk jobs most hunters won't touch. Bigger paydays. Deadlier targets. Zero room for mistakes.
But when a routine contract drags her crew into a web of political deception, outlaw tech, and something hunting ships beyond the edges of known space... survival isn't enough.
Because this time, the danger doesn't follow rules.
It doesn't leave witnesses.
And it doesn't stop.
With Vince Calder, ex-cop, problem solver, and the only man who can keep up with her, and Bolt, the combat android aboard Blackwake who sees everything coming except human stupidity, Dani has one choice:
Stop reacting. Start deciding.
Because once Blackwake lights up-
there's no going back.