Ross finds himself wandering the streets one night, bleeding from the head and unable to remember the past year and a half yet called to the crime scene of a grisly murder.

Amid friends and strangers who he's supposed to know, he sets out to unravel more than one mystery.

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Spensa and her ship, M-Bot, make an amazing team. Luring Krell fighters into ambushes, zipping through the layers of centuries-old machinery orbiting her planet (which is actually a penal colony/human nature preserve), and protecting her family and friends.