In bestselling author Tanya Huff's third book in the Peacekeeper series, Warden Torin Kerr must decide where she's needed most when a galaxy's worth of trouble hits the fan…

Torin Kerr loves leading Strike Team Alpha for the Peacekeepers. There's too much paperwork, and the people she's trying to rehabilitate shoot real bullets at her, but the force she's creating will change the Confederation.

That is, if the Confederation can hold. Too many malcontents are rallying to Humans First, becoming terrorists and rebels with spies in seemingly every network. The Silsviss are on the verge of violently withdrawing from their treaty. Big Yellow has reappeared with the alien warmongers that experimented on them all, and a furious and incomprehensible demand. And a certain general is growling out Torin's name and pushing a reenlistment contract.

As the world she's fought to preserve teeters on the brink of collapse, Torin can't do it all—but with a team like hers, she doesn't have to. And when the chips are down, there's no one who can change the game like Torin Kerr…