Jake Dani is a private eye on the newly colonized planet of Rossa, hired by the planet's prime minister to clear his son of the murder of the First Lady. When Jake agrees reluctantly to help his best friend Ron on a spy mission, he uncovers the genocide of the napes, a native sentient species, by a powerful pharma company. But if Jake stops the genocide, he puts his own daughter at risk of dying from a deadly brain disease. Then Jake learns that his estranged father is on Rossa—and is missing.