A break sounds good after the stresses of this long mission, but trouble follows the Science Officer everywhere he goes.

When four pirate squadrons drop out of jump, Suvi has to run, leaving Javier and Djamila behind on the surface.

Suvi and Zakhar will have to go to war. With all the pirates. Everywhere.

And even if they win, they can never go home. Not to where they were born, any of them.

Book Fourteen of The Science Officer, and part of Season Two.