Erica Williams needs a second chance in life. She has failed at being a Zen Buddhist nun after over a decade of training. She returns home to her large family's starship and their trading business on the frontier of known space. The first thing Erica learns is the Starship Guinevere and her all-female crew has a price on their heads. Someone wants them dead. Who could it be? Why? One thing Erica learned as nun was how to fight, but will that be enough to save her and her family? Soon Erica runs off to save her mother Alberta when she's kidnapped. What Erica discovers is a spacefaring race of lizard-like aliens that are hostile to Erica's family and other humans who live on the frontier. What do they want? Can there be peace or will there be war?