Bria loves nothing more than running the lightways, the luminal network used to carry sensitive messages through the Nuit System. Never one to look before she leaps, Bria ignores her old mentor's warnings about a risky mission. But he's proven right when the Speaker Elect of Osiris takes Bria's bad news personally.
Now stranded on an enemy planet, Bria will need all her wits—and the help of some unlikely allies—to get out alive.