If you were sentenced to death, wouldn't you jump at a chance for life?

Even if it was to leave Earth and board a ship full of freaks—the hideous survivors of a DNA altering plague?

Arlen Rowell took that chance and found the freaks were a finer stock of folks than the ones who shunned them from their home planet. On the ship Benevolence Arlen found honesty, integrity, fortitude, a little danger, and...love.

Then he found a way to contact the other nine freak ships with the idea that 50,000 freaks could find a planet and make a home.