Wars may end. Vengeance is forever.
In the year 2105, Autonomists and Terrans have signed a final treaty in an effort to please their alien oversight and seal "Pax Minoica." All temporal distortion warheads will be destroyed and their delivery systems deactivated, to include the Autonomist Naga vehicles and the Terran Falcon missiles.
The war is fifteen years in the past, but someone still hopes to punish those who would dare to destroy a sun, even for the sake of war...
To her partners at Aether Exploration, Ariane Kedros is the daring pilot of their prospecting ship. She is also a reserve major in the Consortium of Autonomous Worlds--accepting mysterious assignments to fulfill her duty.
To the Terran Expansion League, she is a war criminal. Fifteen years ago, she piloted a ship on a mission that obliterated an entire solar system. Those involved in the incident were given new identities and new lives in order to protect them from retribution. No new face or name can wash away the guilt Ariane feels, or chase her demons away.
But now, her government wants something in return. Twelve of Ariane's wartime colleagues are dead--assassinated by someone who has uncovered their true identities. And her superiors in the Autonomist army have placed her directly in the assassin's line of fire on a peacekeeping mission that will decide the fate of all humanity…