The promised future has arrived. Mankind has outgrown old Terra and lives peacefully among the stars. But when junior engineer Kyra Warner of the TSS Argo picks up the wrong item from an alien planet, she soon finds out that not everything in this universe is willing to coexist.

A secret division of the American intelligence apparatus fights against mind-controlling slavers. When one of their own is compromised and captured, the agents of the division must take action before it is too late.

Christine has been invited for a job interview that seems too good to be true, and she soon gets to learn why: The conditions of her prospective employment are rather… unorthodox.