Alone...
... But this hardly means lost.
Derek Moss is alone and far behind the enemy lines controlled by Colonel Harnet. While he's not lost--it's hard to be lost when he's managed to find his own, if old, backyard in Garson itself--he finds himself cut off from the Rangers of Walden and without allies as his own have presumed him dead. But he knows one thing Harnet doesn't... and that's how to win even when the odds are against him.
A Kingdom pressed on two sides.
The death of a Queen is never easy, but it's twice as difficult to hold everything together as Regent when Marissa now has to deal with the slavers sensing an opening on her West... and the war with Harnet on her East. All she wants is a chance to breathe again--and to mourn the heavy losses the war to retake the Downtown Core have cost her new home...
... And time isn't on anyone's side.
