Captain Henry Blue has made a terrible choice as his family faces financial ruin. He's taken his old freighter, Charlie B., not only to one restricted planet, but to another. Driven off, his ship lies at the edge of the system... His spacer heritage call to him, warning his fate is enmeshed with the passenger he was forced to abandon. While she seeks an answer to the mystery that has brought them, battlecruisers patrol.

Welcome to the second book in the Terran Catalyst series by D.H. Aire, author of the Highmage's Plight Series.