The political landscape has changed since the events of UNJUST THEFT, giving rise to the hard-scrabble Free Trade Zone, where the protagonist of this novella has been ensnared by a new kind of implant technology.

Chloe thought pilot training and its accompanying implant would allow her to support her extended family in the Free Trade Zone; instead, she accidentally receives an experimental hijacking implant. Once people discover she can control others through their implants, nowhere is safe for her. From a Pax Romana research facility to a Libertad Fransa pirate ship, everyone wants to either drug her into submission or use her hijacking abilities for their own gain. With the help of her few allies, including a true AI ship, can she break truly free, or will she once more exchange one prison for another?