Survival is only the beginning. Imogen Hart waits to be executed at the hands of the warrior nation Carran. Aboard the colonial spacecraft Conestoga, truth is running out of allies ? or so it seems. As war looms both above and below, pockets of resistance both on Alamea and aboard Conestoga hold the rising threat at bay. Soon enough, everyone will have to make a choice: fight for truth, or face annihilation.

Who will stand and who will fall in the final battle for control?