When top homicide inspector Zette McGee is called out of her mysterious retirement to help Kell Fallow, a desperate former android accused unjustly of murdering his wife and children, she knows she has to help him. Zette has a secret she is desperate to keep, and Fallow knows all about it. With the help of her best friend, the elderly but very suave former secret agent Gideon Smith...Zette sets out to save Kell...The case will take Zette and Gideon on a terrifying journey into the darkest reaches of human space, risking everything in the pursuit of an ancient truth...' - from back cover