Creating the alternate persona of Nemesis, Nykyrian along with his comrades help to counter the League's twisted view of the law.
[4] Sheridan Digger Wade, more commonly referenced as Syn throughout the series, began his life as a "tech-thief".
But several months later, Syn is talked out of his booze-filled gloom by Nykyrian and sends Shahara a dress she had wanted to buy during their adventure as a gift before appearing in her apartment himself where he proposes.
The epilogue takes place two years later where Shahara reveals she is pregnant—she and Syn had believed that a sexual assault that led her to becoming a Seax and a Tracer as a teenager left her unable to bear children.
[7] Later she is revealed to be a slave who was chosen by the nemesis of the Wade family, Merjack due to her similarity to Devyn's deceased lover who had betrayed him.
Now working as a runner, he has acquired the help of the mysterious Alix Garran as his systems engineer.
With her affinity for all things mechanical and her lack of ties to any friends or family, she's a perfect choice for the rogue's crew.
During the skirmish he discovers a child, Omari, who had been hideously injured and crippled by explosives that killed his family.
When Devyn refuses and is threatened at gun point he disarms his commander and kills or cripples every soldier in his unit.
Years later, Alix has been recruited by Merjack under the threat of her sister being sold as a sex slave to find evidence of crimes by Devyn.
Devyn is shocked at her lack of knowledge of sex and how she thinks that she is required to sleep with him, but begins to show Alix how to embrace her freedom.
Despite thoughts of killing her—along with demands from his mother Shahara to do so he spares her and agrees to help her bring Merjack down.
Whelms then reveals that Merjack never intended to free Alix or her family, and signals soldiers to recapture her—assuring that she will never be able to buy her own freedom legally.
Paden, in a moment of repentance, takes the shot for his father and apologizes for how he allowed his mother to turn him against his father—even offering to give his organs to help a recovering Devyn.
This book focuses on Caillen Dagan, younger brother of Shahara, who is arrested in the process of taking the fall for another of his siblings during a smuggling gone wrong.
He is sentenced to death only to be saved at the last minute by a man who claims to be his true father: The Emperor of a massive star empire who brings Caillen back to his home planet despite the smuggler's skepticism.
His love interest for this novel is a Princess/Royal Guard of an empire dominated by warrior women and ruled by an ice cold monarch, Desideria.