In the distant future, on the planet Fortune, tech is low, treason high, and heroes unlikely.

Wrongly convicted of treason, Infantry Colonel Gideon Quinn has spent six years harvesting crystal under the killing suns of the Morton Barrens.

So when a general of the Colonial Corps arrives with an offer of freedom, and a chance to clear his name, Gideon doesn't have to think twice. He takes her offer and with Elvis, his pet draco, boards an airship bound for the city of Nike in search of revenge.

What he finds is plucky street-thief, a city steeped in corruption, and a seeming host of enemies determined to stop Gideon from discovering their deadly purpose… by any means necessary.

Now Gideon finds himself involved in an entirely different kind of war, one that, if he loses, will bring Fortune's new and fragile peace to an explosive end.