This, the first collection of stories from the world of The Strange Fate of Capricious Jones, tells the stories of Capricious Jones, an engineer who would rather die flying free than be enslaved, her daughter Leigh Abrams, Lady Officer in the American Expeditionary Force, and Tina Tesla, an AI from halfway around the globe, designed to emulate human behavior, who finds herself with a Badge, a Gun, and a Duty to uphold.