A prototype that breaks the rules for how star drives operate.A young man who shouldn't be the one at the helm for this first flightAn outcome not even his Grandfather could have foreseen, or had he?He lived a sheltered life until the nav-com flashed the message, ‘Location Unknown. Searching for Star Fix...’Ensign Nivpul Exavent has dreamt since boyhood of becoming the first person to pilot the next generation star ship his grandfather would one day build.

Ensign Nivpul Exavent has succeeded in bringing his grandfather's ship home after a spacial anomaly stranded him far beyond the edge of charted space.With June Trynamour, the outsider who stole his heart, on his arm, and a representative of a prince of the realm watching his every move, any semblance of the sheltered life from which he'd been ripped so long ago proved out of reach.As circumstances spiral out of hand, Niv's grandfather convinces him to take June off station ...

The last thing Nivpul wanted to see upon his return to the Consortium fleet was an undeserved honour guard.When elements threatened by his influence join forces with people who want his wife, June, dead, the two of them decide its time to take back control.To do this, they must first take down the rogue agency June left to be with him. A path that risks letting her get so close to the horrors of her past his love won't be enough to guide her back to the life they were makin...