Jake Jones has one rule: stay invisible and stay alive. As a smuggler drifting through the lawless edges of settled space, he's mastered the art of minding his own business. But when a routine salvage operation puts him between a desperate princess, her soccer-playing robot, and the forces hunting them, Jake's carefully constructed life falls apart faster than a cheap hyperdrive.

Princess Adara Jabez never planned to become a fugitive. Fleeing her arranged marriage to the cruel Crown Prince of the Ethnarch Kingdom, she carries vital intelligence that could prevent a devastating war. With her unlikely companion, Number 34—a wisecracking soccer robot with a cockney accent—she must reach the Women's Freedom Alliance before it's too late.

As their paths collide, Jake reluctantly agrees to transport Adara and Number 34 to safety. But powerful enemies lurk in the shadows. The Ethnarch Kingdom and the Andrasian Republik have joined forces to frame the WFA for an attack on the Galactic Federation's Enterprise Station—a false flag operation that will trigger interstellar conflict.

Their journey takes them from the dangerous Bandolier Asteroid Belt to the hot and dusty Scrapyard of Duryak, the galaxy’s garbage dump. Fate reunites Jake with Ella Kuhn, his former academy friend who now commands the WFA’s flagship, Keres. As Adara's vengeful brother coordinates a massive manhunt and a merciless Andrasian intelligence officer closes in with deadly precision, Jake confronts the defining choice of his life: cling to his carefully crafted neutrality or finally stand for something worth dying for.

In this thrilling space adventure, loyalty and courage emerge in the most unlikely places. As starship battles rage and political conspiracies deepen, the bonds formed between a smuggler, a princess, and a soccer robot might just determine the fate of the galaxy.