ONCE you’re owned, you are property until your owners say otherwise.

They may have escaped death at the hands of pirates, slavers, and the general terrors of the Galactic Sphere, but those crew members of The Chrysanthemum who are owned cannot run free forever.

Sooner or later, someone will come to take them back.

Unless, of course, their lives can be bought back beforehand.

It is with desperation that Isa turns the ship towards a Company owned planet, in the hopes of bargaining for the freedom of her husband before bounty hunters can steal Telfer away forever.