Evie knows that she loves her girlfriend. What she doesn't know might kill her. Evie is a bookish barkeep in the pirate settlement of Bradach. When the love of her life betrays her, she finds herself fighting not just for the truth, but for her life. When Larkin gets stiffed on payment after a job, she finds herself broke and imprisoned by a corrupt system. When the two are thrown together by chance, they have to learn from each other and how to work together to survive. With the Coalition bearing down hard on the growing rebel ranks, will Larkin's shadowy past come back to haunt her into an early grave?