The only peace retired Enforcers usually find is the peace of death. Donrazor Landfall refuses to accept that fate. In his new profession, freight runs through the cold of space provide relative safety from his lethal past and the secret war h'd been pulled into. But those trips yield no sustenance to a spirit starved for something more. The Mortuus have withdrawn, telling him not to seek Mura who awakened something inside he'd thought long dead. Cryptic advice from the people he trusts the most abounds with risk. They can't understand how following it could ultimately lead to his end as with so many others of his former profession. Then he accepts an unusual assignment. It is one that brings him face-to-face with the only other woman from his past who holds the power to shatter his safe life among the stars, or to fill the void that plagues his soul.