One thousand years in the future, humans are at war with an invading alien civilization. Twenty year old Anne Campbell longs to fight by following in her mother's footsteps as a privateer, but she has no ship, no money, and no crew. There is also a bounty on her head and no shortage of men looking to collect. She does know of a ship she can steal and when she hides out on a backwater planet she meets two men who are crazy enough to help her. The future belongs to those who dare...and survive.