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Captain Chasidah Bergren was court-martialed for a crime she didn't commit and sent to Moabar, hellacious prison planet from which there was no escape. While she is there a Takan guard attacks her and she has to kill him. She hopes she isn't found out but then she is rescued by Gabriel Sullivan, a blast from her past whom she though was dead.

Sully not only saves Chaz but he also helps her escape but there is one condition. She must help him as well. Chaz agrees to help. After all what more can she do? She just doesn't have any idea what she is getting herself into.

Sully tells her that even though the jukor experiment was supposed to be terminated, it somehow wasn't and their mission was to find the jukor lab and shut it down. Chaz agrees but with stipulations, of course.

There are a lot of things that have to be set up and put into place before they are ready to do what needs to be done. Chaz can't believe the varied and sundry group that Sully has for a crew. There's even a blind Stolorth who is Sully's best friend. Chaz had been taught never to trust Stolorths. After all they were soul-stealers.

There's also something very strange about Sully. Chaz just can't quite put her fingers on it but she knows something is off somehow. Still she and Sully are as attracted as they ever were. Will they fight the attraction or give in to it?

I'm so ecstatic that I've discovered Linnea Sinclair's books. Her books are outstanding and her imagination mind- boggling! I get immersed in her world and get quite grumpy when I get distracted or torn away! I eagerly look forward to reading more of her books!

Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted March 19, 2006

Revised and Rereleased with new publisher

~ Previous editions no longer available

Summary

After a decade of cruising interstellar patrol ships, former Captain Chasidah Bergren, onetime Pride of the Sixth Fleet, finds herself court-martialed for a crime she didn't commit-and shipped off to a remote prison planet from which no one ever escapes. But when she kills a brutal guard in an act of self-defense, someone even more dangerous emerges from the shadows.

Gabriel Sullivan-alpha mercenary, smuggler, and rogue-is supposed to be dead. Yet now this seductive ghost from Chaz's past is offering her a ticket to freedom-for a price. Someone in the Empire is secretly breeding jukors: vicious and uncontrollable killing machines that have long been outlawed. Gabriel needs Chaz to help him stop the practice before it decimates imperial space. For Chaz, it's a matter of survival. For Sully it means facing the truth about who-and what-he really is. The mission means putting their lives on the line-but the tensions that heat up between them may be the riskiest part of all. For both of them, it's a life- and-death battle where giving up the ghost just took on a whole new meaning..