Book 3 of Mars. General Rich is not giving up just because DeNoPE lost the war. He has a plan to bring the Martiansl into submission. At the same time, a group of fugitives land on Mars and find something they didn't expect to find. All of this throws a monkey wrench in Scout's plans to correct the tilt of their new planet. The treaty allows DeNoPE to retrieve fugitives from Mars, but Scout and Jordan think there's more the story than DeNoPE lets on. The Republic of Mars allows them to search the planet, but they don't trust them. General Rich shows how evil he can be, and Scout decides to turn the tables on DeNoPE.