Jani Kilian, once a soldier and an elite diplomatic liaison to the alien idomeni, now makes money however she can, working a series of low-level paper jobs far below her capabilities. But when her ex-lover, now highly placed in the Commonwealth, persuades her to investigate high-level secrets that threaten his family and the government, Jani`s forced to confront the traumas of her past and the rapidly deteriorating effects of cybernetic augmentation. Meanwhile, in the shadows, an alien ambassador arranges events and people for his own purposes.