Dawn-Star has not heard from her husband Robbie for three years. The official report is that he is on deep space assignment, but she fears for his safety and seeks answers. Her brother Jupe Beggs is trying to live a normal life on the world Harax Pras, but he suspects all is not well in a new city in the north that calls itself Ancia. A page-turning thriller set in the early days of galactic colonisation, when the race is on to get out into the universe by any means possible. The third of the series of nine novels about the far-reaching influence of people who were only ever looking out for themselves.