When you live and work in space the smallest mistake can kill you. But for some, such a challenge is what makes life worth living. Macon Trier abandoned a predictable future as a theoretical mathematician because gravity made his feet hurt. Now he works in space, providing support for those who gather ice and push it toward a small but growing sea on Mars. But Macon's past holds secrets, and people are watching him, for reasons he could never have imagined.
A simple decision to become an ice miner, himself, leads to challenges that will test him in ways even those watching would never have suspected, and change the course of human history. It leads to a woman named Christi, and a ship called Enterprise. It leads him to boldly go where no man with any sense has gone before.
And all it takes is brains, resourcefulness, and, monkey feet.