Captain Aivars Terekhov follows in Duchess Harrington’s footsteps as he maneuvers to protect the Talbott System and the Lynx Junction with the help of Lt. Abigail Hearns, the first Grayson woman to go through Saganami, and Helen Zilwicki who is on her first snotty cruise, bringing her already vast experience with hand-to-hand combat and her father’s spycraft aboard.