Growing up in the far future, the decorated Katsina Lucas believed that the three human planets were built on sincerity, and that it was impossible for a person to lie due to humanity's evolutionary merging with technology. But in fighting a war to defend that belief, Katsina becomes public enemy number one.A planet of separatists threatens humanities freedom, Katsina’s spaceship and crew face an unending conflict every day, and now a squadron of freedom fighters are lost under her command. Katsina faces the first criminal court in over a hundred years to defend herself against the accusation of being a traitor and even worse, a liar. After a siege by the enemy on her home she is left under the command of Deacon Morann, the man who accused her.Katsina accepts to live as a criminal in the eyes of her comrades, stripped of all that she had earned, all she had fought for, to search for the real liar that infiltrated her ship. But with Morann in control of her comrades, and her; Katsina must search inward not only to find her innocence, but to make peace with her guilt if she wants to reveal the truth once and for all.