Misevelin Salvage handles all kinds of space salvage jobs. When an old friend of Aric's shows up with a job, they head out to look for a survey team that stopped checking in while exploring a newly-found planet. Their job is to find the team, if possible, and, if not, to pick up the pieces and figure out what happened.
However, what they find when they reach the planet and the survey team's ship, mysteriously empty but perfectly intact, pulls them into the same danger that faced the lost team!
Now they're faced with a tough job and an amazing discovery—if they can manage to tell anyone about it!