Court didn’t plan on becoming a revolutionary. Fifty years after first contact, the Qyntarak dominate the planet politically and economically. Now things are about to get much worse. When Elle’s adoptive father is killed for smuggling alien secrets, she and Court are thrust into a desperate mission to save humankind. Grieving and ill-equipped, they need to stay alive long enough to get those secrets into the hands of people who can use them. But how much more will they have to sacrifice to see it through to the end? And by then, will it be too late?