It's 2075 in a post-climate change, post-pandemic, post-peak oil world. Professor Radicand Jones has earned a nice quiet sabbatical in her sister's solar powered airship, floating serenely above it all.

Instead, Radicand finds herself:

Defending the airship flock against pirates with nothing but her rifle and her wits.

Risking her mind every time she goes deeper into the enhanced virtual reality of the aether—just like her father before her.

Helping her best friend escape from bounty hunters determined to keep her genetic property under corporate control.

Falling in love with a killer. He has a heart of gold. It might belong to someone else.

Happy endings may look easy in the sky, but can Radicand Jones save everyone else's hearts and minds without losing her own?