Her name is Penelope Bailey and she is a cute little 8-year-old girl with a difference. And the difference is that the Galactic army and navy want her dead. The governments of hundreds perhaps thousands of planets want her dead. Every bounty hunter and assassin who knows the size of the reward wants her dead. Only three things stand between Penelope and a hostile galaxy. One is a diminutive thief known as the Mouse. One is a centuries-old killer named The Forever Kid who stopped aging when he was nineteen. And one is the reason they all want her dead.