Dr. Rae Dahlia didn't come to Mars to be one of the few women scientists, pampered and ogled like some exotic species; and she certainly didn't come to waste her time testing ice core samples in post-doctoral hell, yet everyone keeps telling her that's exactly where she belongs. Rae starts to believe it until she gets a strange invitation to run her own lab at Evermore Industries, the newest R&D company in the terradome. There's a problem, its founder, Everett Evermore is an eccentric, disgraced by the scientific community, and he's not being up-front about EI's goals. Accepting his invitation may burn Rae's connections and poison her budding career, but if she does nothing she may not achieve her dream of becoming a worlds-famous scientist.