"For the past year, their close loss in the annual Boarding Games has haunted Interceptor Team Zuma's Ghost. With this year's competition looming, they're looking forward to some payback until an unexpected personnel change leaves them reeling. Their best swordsman has been transferred, and a new lieutenant has been assigned as his replacement. Maxine Carmichael is trying to carve a place in the world on her own away from the pressure and influence...

NeoG-the Near-Earth Orbital Guard, a diverse military force that patrols and protects the solar system, inspired by the real-life mission of the Coast Guard-and the crew of Zuma's Ghost are under attack, and shocking truths are about to be exposed. What the black takes should stay in the black. Ensign Nell "Sapphi" Zika has been working hard to get past her trauma, but the unnerving pleas for help she's hearing in the Verge and the song she can't...