A saboteur on the loose. A target on her back. An enemy wearing the face of a friend. Can Faith figure out whoÕs trying to wipe out IonaÕs population before itÕs too late?
Faith believed in the benevolence of the Company, until it used her code to frame her lover, then tried to kill them both.
On Company planet Home World, Faith uncovered secrets that made her a target in a shadowy game of interplanetary-scale corporate intrigue. She fled to independent Iona, where sheÕs spent the last eight years tinkering with space junk and keeping a low profile. But her carefully controlled life unravels when a mysterious someone attacks her planetmates with a chemical weapon that drops them into stasis and turns their bodies blue. Then the Company starts making noise about sending a representative to Òhelp,Ó and all FaithÕs alarm bells go off.
Proving a connection between the Company and the attacker might save Iona from both, but Faith canÕt do it alone and her prospective allies all suspect each other. Should she trust the new arrival whose Ònice guyÓ persona doesnÕt quite match up with rumors of a shady past? Or the frosty Company official whoÕs clearly got an agenda of her own? And then thereÕs her long-lost lover, who lands on Iona full of secrets but no straight answers about what heÕs been up to--or why he disappeared completely all those years ago.
The wrong choice could doom Iona, but as Faith discovers the hidden truth about the little planet, she realizes the Company may be the least of their problems.