Aiur Space Station, Protos System, Upper Dome: Milla is a Lunar, and she's the bodyguard of Dall ia Hessire, a representative for all Lunar Confederacies within the Regent's Conclave and the Galactic Senate. The charge seems boring enough but a brutal homicide, both cruel and unexpected, upsets the entire station, and Milla is suddenly burdened with a different and unwanted task: to find the killer.
Her discoveries will take her far away from Protos, on the threshold of Human territories and then beyond, well within the boundaries of Herem-controlled space, where she will set foot on the surface of a world long since abandoned, one where she hopes to find an invaluable treasure: the research, once thought lost, of late Professor Emra Arkadiev.