Kate Standish has been on Huginn less than a week and she's already pretty sure her new company murdered her boss. But extractions corporations dominate the communities of the forest world, and few are willing to threaten their meal tickets to look too closely at corporate misbehaviour. The little town of mill workers and farmers is more worried about the threat of eco-­‐terrorism and a series of attacks by the bizarre, sentient dogs of this planet, than a death most people would like to believe is an accident.

When Standish connects a secret chemical test site to a nearly forgotten disaster in Huginn's history, she reveals a conspiracy that threatens Standish and everyone she's come to care about.