After sending generational ships to habitable systems within 20 light-years, humans became an interstellar species. But the vast distances separating colonies left them disconnected from each other. A real, human empire remained impossible, and fractures in their unity formed.

Ella woke up in an unfamiliar room wearing someone else's face, covered in blood. As she struggles to reconcile the two sets of memories and emotions racing through her mind, she searches for clues on her father's murder. But he wasn't who she thought he was, and neither is she.

Jerok wanted nothing more than to live free from gravity's restraints, so when his father died and left him enough money to buy a ship, he went independent. Now, he travels the system with his childhood friends and takes any job that pays enough to keep them floating. However, after rumors of abnormal Union activities reach his ears, he takes notice of the changes.

Together, Ella and Jerok must unmask a conspiracy that threatens to reshape humanity, before it's too late.