Find. Claim. Profit. In a post-Covenant War galaxy littered with scrap, it's the salvager's motto-and Rion Forge certainly made her mark on the trade.

All she wanted was to grow her business and continue the search for her long-lost father, but her recent discovery of a Forerunner debris field at the edge of human-occupied space has now put her squarely in the crosshairs of the Office of Naval Intelligence and the violent remains of the Covenant.

Each faction has a desire to lay claim to the spoils of ancient technology, whatever the cost, sending Rion and the crew of the Ace of Spades on a perilous venture-one that unexpectedly leads them straight into danger far greater than anything they've ever encountered...