Power doesn't come cheap — just ask Xavial Dedmon. As the right hand of Armitage Bek, CEO of Aileron Dynamics and head of the Interstellar Cohort, Dedmon has clawed his way to the top through cunning, perception, and an uncanny ability to read those around him. He's made himself indispensable while serving his own hidden agenda. But when a routine corporate acquisition turns into a game of double-crosses, Dedmon finds himself caught between two corporations (and a pack of mercenaries) willing to kill to control the future of interstellar commerce. He'll need every trick in his considerable arsenal to survive and still close the deal entrusted to him.

Return to the universe of Broken Hourglass in this new tale of corporate intrigue, betrayal, and one fixer's dance with death.