Eva Jane Carter has been on the run from the secretive Alliance Militia, the military strongmen of the Outer Rim Territories, for years, hiding out on the edge of known space and trying as best she can to evade capture and piece together some sort of existence. She'd do anything she could to forget her past and live free out here in the desolate last frontier of the galaxy. But deep down she knows the Alliance will never stop hunting her. They will never let the damage she once dealt their reputation slide. There was only ever one way out of the Militia, Carter knew, and it wasn't pretty.  And as hostile as the vast reaches of interstellar space can be, the danger out here paled in comparison to what the Alliance Militia would do to her if she were ever caught...