Today might be Mary Raven's last day on Earth, trapped on the last spaceport where no-one cares about murder and the only real currency is fear.
She has her dead father's raygun, and that's enough for space hero turned arms dealer Lightning Bowman to want her dead. But she also has her dead father's diary.
And now she knows something no-one else in the settlement does...and they'll want her dead for that, too...