Sean Foster is a college student who had dreams of teaching--but those dreams ended when he was sentenced to twenty years in prison. To make matters worse, he has to serve his sentence on a planet far from Earth. Sean is resigned to his fate ... but it may not be what he expected: the prison ship is destroyed and he's the only survivor, rescued by the mysterious crew of the spaceship Outsider. Although he and the crew know little about each other, they agree to team up to investigate why the prison ship was attacked. Sean will soon regret his decision: Outsider crashes near a secluded colony and everyone aboard is taken prisoner by a sinister man whose colony hides some dark secrets. Can Sean and the crew escape to solve the mystery, or will they share the same deadly fate?