After years stranded on a distant mining colony, Cassandra "Lucky" Luckenbach finally has enough money to catch a ship back to Earth. She boards Rosebud, unaware she's walking into the center of a life-altering interstellar conspiracy.

For Trigg Donner, commander of the space freighter, life in the space lanes isn't easy, but it's home. When a routine landing on San Pedro simultaneously unearths a mystery simmering on his ship and drops Lucky into his life, for the first time in a long time, he's torn between his head and his heart.

Intrigue, adventure, and romance await them on their journey back to Earth, but before they arrive, each will have to decide what it is they truly want.