Trapped inside a bubble in Probability Space, the Rhouon and the last of their allies are running out of resources, power, options and hope. Then someone triggers the Gate they believed shut forever, adding an insatiable apex predator to the mix. It’s a dirty siege. A ship crashes through the Gate and survives. If that ship can get in, then is escape possible? Not without defeating that creature. But the creature is desperate too, and far more cunning than anybody realises.