Fleet is tearing itself apart. Some of the mutineers see injustice in the unequal spread of the rejuvenation drugs that offer immortality to the rich. The Loyalists, meanwhile, fight to preserve the rule of law in Familias Regnant space. But when Esmay Suiza-Serrano is booted out of Fleet, she has no idea of the whirlwind of conflict into which she is about to be drawn.