Because he owes a debt of honor, charming, self-made security professional Rafe McTavish must put aside the fourteen-year estrangement with his family and investigate his tycoon brother-in-law's purchase of a dilapidated deep-space mining station. At the station, he meets the secretive Kama Bhatia, a computer hacker and corporate spy who will stop at nothing to retrieve a lost secret document that could change the balance of power in the galaxy. Trapped together amidst hostility and distrust, Rafe and Kama must work together to unravel a web of fraud, deception, and murder before a tide of violence overtakes them.