A smuggler running from her past, Mercy desperately wants answers to her mother's disappearance. All roads lead her to the one place she can't return: home. ¿¿Killers. Thieves. Pirates. Family. ¿¿ Mercy has spent her life evading the Pirate Queen who attempted to murder her as a child. Now, living as a smuggler with the outlawed Talent of telepathy, she keeps her head down, takes jobs that keep her moving, and searches for answers about her mother's disappearance fifteen years ago. ¿¿ But living outside the law has consequences. ¿¿Tricked and captured, Mercy must choose between two rival factions: the terrorists who will do anything to exploit her gifts for themselves, and the pirates she's been eluding since childhood. ¿¿Her only ally is the most dangerous killer of them all, and trusting him may be her final mistake.¿¿ Star Wars meets Firefly in this space fantasy series readers compare to Ilona Andrews and Nalini Singh.