Major Valerie Carter is the best the Legion has ever known. With Shadow Company, the foremost elite unit of the Pantheon, she has fought on countless worlds for masters who care for only power and wealth. Hanna is an orphan who has seen the wonders of the Privileged but known only grief, hunger and pain in her fourteen years. Now her chance to change her life has arrived, but to do so she must rely on a drunken, broken soldier who has lost everything. The Privileged live lavishly at the expensive of the rest of humanity and they must maintain the Pantheon as the pre-eminent civilisation. A...

Two people have died in Valerie's crusade. She knows she must return to Olympus, the capital of the Pantheon, to find her next target. There she may face the one thing she fears in the galaxy, those she turned her back on, the survivors of her family and her Company. Hanna and Deni have promised to aid their friend, but can they survive on a hostile world and prevent Valerie's wanton destruction of Furioso from repeating? The forces of the Pantheon are moving against Valerie and the Rebellion is hunting her. Can she avoid them and get vengeance for her family? All the while, in the darkened...