For a company that mines asteroids, discovering a shortcut to 61 Cygni and its untapped resources should be good news, right?

Dek Conrad knew better. He had kept his small company under the radar for decades. He had to. His company was a twentieth the size of the megacorporations.

But his discovery put Conrad in the crosshairs of the biggest of those megacorps, TCP. TCP would stop at nothing, absolutely nothing, to get Conrad's find. And he can't just sell it to them.

Because Conrad's guarding a secret. His entire company is guarding a secret. A secret so important, they're willing to die to protect it. And TCP is about to make them prove it.