For seventeen years, the United Planets Space Force fought the Kenmiri Empire. They drove the alien overlords back from humanity's borders into their own stars and found allies among the Kenmiri's slaves and subjects.Now, Henry Wong and the crew of the Raven must forge alliances with once-conquered worlds. They must reach out to the weak and protect the defenseless. But allies threaten to turn to enemies among the ashes of a fallen empire.War was hard enough. Peace may be impossible.