The Court of Drifting Winds dreams of freedom.
Those who attend the Courts dream of wealth and power. That none of them will ever need to account for.
Time and space wait for none at all. The universe spins itself so that the Courts must once again face the grasp of their progenitors. The powers of Old Earth and its empire will reclaim that which has eluded them these past centuries.
Maggie Ojeda has been called by the Duke to prepare the Courts for the inevitable. Accounts must be balanced. The Courts must, at least in theory, be made to appear to be just as the absent ownership groups expect.
At the same time, Maggie has been contacted by an entity from Old Earth. One of the absent owners wants to get ahead of the competition before the rush begins. And Maggie comes highly recommended.
Maggie knows well that going round and round between management and ownership is part of the job. Only, this time, there's an entire system, and all of its people, hanging in the balance.
This job's going to be a little more trouble than Maggie's usual audit...
