A Churn in the Dark

Love and murder stir between the stars. Four months after the Belethea Race Royale team's narrow escape from Otho and Casolla's dark syndicates, Sylvia Long, Grady/Guns, and Belethea's newest doubles team arrive on Crion for its inaugural New Year Race. But with Sterling/Hart enjoying their own holiday back home, Sylvia struggles to balance her ever-growing duties as both team coach and manager. Meanwhile, Agent Shiro Tanaka-Sylvia's boyfriend and the Belethea royalers' one-man security team-is determined to use this working holiday to propose to Sylvia under Crion's aurora-bathed skies. But when the race takes a dark turn, all their plans go out the airlock as Shiro and Sylvia rush to save their royalers.

The bad blood is still thick in Casolla, and someone isn't about to let Belethea forget it.