WAR IS COMING, A WAR THAT COULD MEAN THE COLLAPSE OF THE REPUBLIC. BUT HOW CAN YOU DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT WHEN YOU'RE A SLAVE, DEEP IN THE BELLY OF A BRUTAL PATROL SHIP? Clara Perdue isn't sure why she took Jack Pike's place at the slave market. She isn't sure why she saved another girl and volunteered for the Scorpion, a Coastforce ship that plies the Channel, murdering refugees and raiding the villages along the coast...