What could possibly be worse than ending up on a prison planet where the only way out is death? Rison Ecks is a criminal. She's been sentenced to live out the rest of her life doing manual labor on a prison planet in a dark corner of the galaxy for attempting to assassinate the man who killed her lover. Then her prison transport crash lands on an unplotted planet, and Rison is flung into the middle of a deadly competition that no one escapes with their lives. But Rison is made of stronger stuff than most, especially when faced with a strong, beautiful woman and an innocent life in peril. Together, they plot to overthrow their captors... even if it kills them. Will they survive to fight the real monster on this planet?

They toppled a nefarious tournament to emancipate the contestants from being devoured. Now to save a boy from eternal assimilation, they fly into the belly of another beast. Rison Ecks is fresh off an escape from imprisonment for attempted assassination. Her crew, a hodgepodge of other dissenters, are focused on liberating a boy to pay off a debt to a fallen comrade, but all Rison wants is out of danger. The man she essentially decapitated. The woman whose plans she’d dashed. The government bent on her eradication. With the help of a sect of accommodating rebels and an unlikely ally, they’ll try to eliminate the network consuming the galaxy’s sacrifices.