They escaped the trap.
They didn't escape the cost.
After a disastrous encounter on Acheron Station, Corbin Nash and Penelope Lovecake are alive?but not unchanged. The outlaw life they chose is closing in fast, and the emotional armor Penelope relied on is shattered.
As military patrols tighten across the sector and old enemies circle, Penelope is forced to confront truths she isn't ready to name?about herself, about Corbin, and about the line she crossed when she chose him over everything she once believed in.
Survival was never the hard part.
Living with what it took to survive might be.
