Spacewoman, smuggler, poet, spy.
Hester needs to get away from Earth. To get to Mars she's told a teeny tiny little lie. She said she was a poet. And she's not.
Now somehow she's the first and only Poet Laureate of Mars. What could possibly go wrong?
Tolly is an augmented human in charge of mapping the surface of Mars. But when he finds something he's not supposed to see his own people want to wipe his memory. And he can't let that happen.
Hester might be able to help Tolly, but she'll have to get over her own hatred of the Augments first. She's going to have to prevent the biggest war that Mars has ever seen. And there's always the worry that she's going to run out of rhymes for 'dust'.