Novis Colony has a reputation for being cursed. *Something* is killing the colonists, and every single mercenary team that has been sent to protect them.

Ros Lamarr is the best mercenary captain in the Commonwealth and even she thinks twice about taking the job. But she's sick of low paid jobs and bored of sitting in a station bar pickling her liver and getting into fights.

Breaking the curse on Novis Colony is going to ask more of Ros than any other job she's ever done but if she can do it the rewards will be bigger than even she can imagine. But she can't do it alone. Ros is going to need all the help she can get from the colony's assistant governor, Isobel Devereux, and from Gabby Hernandez, her long-suffering best friend and comrade-in-arms.

With the help of these two women, and the support of the rest of her mercenary crew, the Erebus Station Irregulars, Ros might just be able to break the curse, but at what cost?