The Real Story had been told - but deep in the realms of Forbidden Knowledge lay greater dangers still . . .

Morn Hyland had survived a terrible ordeal at the hands of one space pirate, only to find herself trapped in the ship of another - and the faces that surrounded her were distinctly unfriendly.

Nick Succorso had rescued her, but for what purpose? Were the disaffected souls that made up his crew willing to risk their ship simply to satisfy the hunger that smouldered in his eyes? They were all illegals, and she was a cop - a cop with gap-sickness.

But Nick's word was law. The ship's gap drive had been damaged in the recent conflict and repairing it in the smugglers shipyard would be expensive - Nick knew that Morn possessed something that could be of value to them all, and he had every intention of exploiting it.

Morn was shattered by her experiences and disorientated by the mind-numbing effects of her zone implant, but her worst nightmares were yet to come. She would begin to hear incredible tales of corrupt dealings by her own people, the UMCP, and of a shadowy alien life force - the Amnion - and their all-consuming mutagens.

All too soon, on the long and hazardous voyage to forbidden space, the bizarre stories would become horifying reality . . .