Adrienne Parker had one job when she came to Holton Station: Develop a drug that will take humans off the Overseer menu. After working triage in Earth's biggest space-port, this marathon of long nights, hot coffee (and even hotter research assistants) is a breeze... ...until she's stranded on a hostile planet with an Overseer renegade. Her choice is clear: turn over her research or die as a monster's midnight snack. Resistance is the only option, defiance, her only tool.But when a plague strikes the humans on the renegade's world, It makes her an offer she can't refuse... The space between stars isn't always black-and-white...