When everyone is an informer…one slip can send you to the camps. Cut off from the rest of Chimera Company, Lily Hjon and her Militia comrades are sent to Eiylah-Bremah, a totalitarian world where failure to report a crime earns the same penalty as committing it. Following her orders means supporting a regime that sickens her, but joining the rebellion would mean fighting for a group that could be even worse. Then Lily meets an innocent girl snared by the system, and she knows it’s time to make her choice. The consequences will reach across the Federation, for Eiylah-Bremah is not as isolated as it appears. Pulling strings from the shadows is an organization with an interstellar agenda and a desire to see Chimera Company burn. Department 9.