Before she had even taken the job, Cadence Drake, a professional finder of lost things, regains consciousness to discover herself in a sealed space station locker, her sole companion the corpse of a stranger. Now in the employ of a starship manufacturer, she seeks a stolen spaceship, the Corrigan's Blood. And the trail Cadence follows, which began with the dead woman in the locker, leads to the one place in the universe that she doesn't dare go.