Ankar. A prison moon from which no one's ever escaped.

Nova. Alone, unarmed, and out-numbered.

Somehow she has to convince the toughest mob boss in the Quadrant to give up his biggest secret, and escape the inescapable, or face certain death at the hands of the Confederacy.

It will take wits, guts, and nerves of steel - and even that may not be enough.