Fault Lines

Velocity Wrachant, owner and captain of the merchant starship Susan Calvin, is broke and stranded on a Drift station, when she is offered what seems like a simple job: to escort young Brontë Ikeda into Republic space and help her retrieve several bonded-labor children.

While Velocity is tempted by the fee Brontë offers - which is enough to clear her debts - she also knows that Ikeda House, a powerful Combine, just had a major coup; and both she and her crew suspect the story they're being to...