Jalen Marr arrives on Plumari Prime broke, hunted, and desperate. The planet’s ban on bounty hunters is the only reason he’s still breathing. Everything he owned is gone, except Chloe62, the slave he trained into a sharp, capable assistant who now keeps him alive through instinct, intelligence, and sheer determination.

Serrik Vaul lures Jalen into the kethrite brokerage trade, where futures markets shift by the hour and rivals play politics with knives out. Every deal earns him a new ally or a new enemy. Every mistake threatens to drag him and Chloe62 into an unforgiving system of debt and servitude.

Jalen wants to rebuild his life. Chloe62 wants to keep hers. And the people they’re dealing with don’t care who gets crushed in the process.