Monkey’s Luck. That’s what the Commonwealth citizens call the kind of hard luck that turns even the good stuff bad. For a not-even-legally-human woman like Kat, it’s the only kind of luck there is. Why else would her regiment be shipped out to an unknown post at the edge of human space in the cargo hold of an old freighter? 

When a Lupan hunting pack blows out the freighter’s hold, Kat figures her luck has changed. With an old ship and a new identity, she plans to put her bloody past behind her for good. Or so she thinks. The other two survivors: a pretty boy slave and a mysterious Lupan officer have different plans. Worse, the rescue team delivers Kat to her worst enemy.

Trapped on a base where nothing and no one is what they seem, can she stay alive long enough to outrun her monkey's luck?