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Asteroid miner Mary Rodrigo and freighter owner Mattim Abeeb are green draftees of the Society of Humanity, forced to fight for EarthтАФa planet theyтАЩve never even seen.
Major Ray Longknife and his lover, Senior Pilot Rita Nuu, are career soldiers, invested with the cause of the Unity PartyтАФand its ambitious new president.
These four soldiers on opposing sides of the battle are about to discover the true nature of this terrible war: a quest for profitтАФfrom the high command of both sides. What they will risk is nothing less than their lives. For although truth may be the first casualty of war, itтАЩs not going to be the lastтАж