For fourteen years, Thracius "Tracy" Belmanor has struggled to make a life for himself after being betrayed by the woman he loves. Court martialed, disgraced, and removed from the military he survives as the captain of a small trading vessel dealing in black market goods beneath the very nose of the elites of the Solar League. Tracy's betrayer, Princess Mercedes de Arango, has problems of her own. She is facing the intrigues of the nobility...