Over the past 500 years, colony fleets from ten Races were snatched from hyperspace. Snatched by a mysterious force, and deposited in a pocket galaxy already teeming with life - The Sandbox.The last to arrive were the Humans ...Human ship thief Skip Lawson's personal mission has brought her to the very edge of the galaxy. But Skip has broken the #1 survival rule for Humans here: never travel alone...Darrek qa'Kaleel is the Aniubi commander of the guns-for-hire crew of the DAWN STAR. A crew needing a Human to help steal a valuable orb from an exclusive casino asteroid.What Skip and Darrek don't know is: a powerful cabal also want the orb. And they will kill anyone who gets in their way.Skip and Darrek made their plans.But even the best of plans can go horribly wrong.