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For decades, the reality-altering implant known as Fealty has kept the Midrakis System in the iron grasp of the Directorate. Until now.Heridan Dettiger, a captain in the Directorate navy, is patrolling the autonomous worlds when his implant malfunctions. After the military orders him to massacre civilians, he and his crew desert instead. Calendra Talveti is the newest member of DIRECOM, the Directorate’s highest governing body. But when she has her implant removed and joins her aging colleagues to rule the system, she quickly discovers there are things the others don’t want her to know.Heridan and Calendra realize the other can offer them answers—and maybe more than that. Avoiding the encroaching Directorate military and deciding what they mean to each other, they must uncover the system’s secrets. What they find will alter the fate of star systems, empires, and relationships.