In this twisty and action-packed adventure from the BSFA award-winning author of Descendant Machine and Future's Edge, a crew of bounty hunters find themselves ensnared in a conspiracy on the very fringes of the devastated solar system. Perfect for fans of James S. A. Corey and Adrian Tchaikovsky. "On Earth, they depicted justice as blindfolded and impartial, but out here on the frontier, she was red in tooth and claw." Jupiter and Saturn are gone, and a mysterious force has built a huge habitable sphere from their ashes. When criminals try to lose themselves on this new frontier, bounty hunters like Copernicus Brown and the crew of his sentient ship Jitterbug get paid to hunt them down. But when Brown rescues Amber Roth, sole survivor of a pirate attack, the Jitterbug and her crew find themselves the target of powerful political factions who want control of the data chip hidden in Roth's stomach. And all the while, something vast and ancient creeps towards them from the depths of space…

En dystopisk roman om, hvor galt det kan gå, når mennesket forsøger at beherske naturen. Ask har mistet sin mor til kræft, så nu bor han alene med sin far. Men det er ikke meget, Ask ser til sin far, for han er helt opslugt af et stort forskningsprojekt. Da Ask tager i Dyrehaven for at fejre sidste skoledag med hele årgangen, er Emma med. Emma, som Ask er venner med - og forelsket i. I Dyrehaven bliver der hygget - lige indtil Emma går ind i skoven for at tisse og ikke kommer tilbage igen. Ask, Chili og Oliver bevæger sig ind i skoven for at finde hende, men hun er som sunket i jorden, og pludselig er det umuligt for de tre at finde ud af skoven igen. Hvad sker der? Kan det passe, at skoven udvider sig?