A young Romulan girl named Asenth, a refugee of the Reman uprisings throughout the Velorum sector, has brought a mystery to the door of counselor Muninn Musgrave: what was the young woman’s mother, an ex-Starfleet Intelligence operative, doing on a Romulan colony—especially since evidence emerges that she didn’t want to stay? Together with Lish Dinalin and the spunky crew of the USS Mogrus, Muninn finds herself pursuing a rabbit down a deadly hole, up to her ears in Reman revolutionaries, Romulan fascists, and the dark secret hidden within the ranks of Starfleet itself.