A resourceful wealthy young pilot trapped alone aboard the captured Scopuli.
Julie Mao has survived eight days hidden in a storage locker after armored attackers seized the Scopuli. Thirst, hunger, and the sounds of her friends being abused have reduced her to desperate calculation, but she refuses to surrender.
When the ship falls silent, Julie forces the locker open, arms herself with a pipe wrench, and searches its empty decks. Engineering contains a growing, fleshy structure wrapped around the reactor; Captain Darren's head protrudes from it and begs her for help.
Julie is a young Lunar citizen with a thin frame and long black hair. Her ordeal has left her in a soiled jumpsuit, dehydrated, bruised, and physically exhausted.
Julie is the missing woman at the center of an unknown assault on the Scopuli and a mystery only beginning to surface.