Long before the events of Nameless, Talon McLeod, captain of the Prodigal, encountered someone who would change everything.... Kale Ravenwood. The syndicate man. He’s going to make me regret this. He’s going to make me wish I’d never known him. If I let him on board, he’s going to get us into more trouble than we can get out of, and it’ll all come back to this moment, when I should have told him to shove off—and didn’t.

A girl with no memories. A man with too many. And an assassin who starts a war to find them. On the seedy backwater moon where a NUSovian ship dropped Xander off to scratch a living among the mines and brothels, true friends are a luxury she can’t afford. What kind of person doesn’t know her own name? Waiting tables and fending off amorous drunks barely earns Xander enough to survive, let alone escape to the civilized colony of NUSaxony to find a nuerotherapist who can help her regain her lost memories. But help often comes from unexpected places. An ex-assassin on the run from his own past, Kale and a team of bounty hunters as eclectic and derelict as their ship saves Xander from a syndicate operative who started a space colony war to find her. They race against time, seeking the spaceship that holds the key to Xander’s memories before the syndicate catches up with them. As the net closes in, Xander faces a choice. Is finding herself worth the price her friends will pay? Or does true friendship mean sacrificing Xander’s memories—walking away from everyone she loves—to keep them safe? After all, some things are more important than a name.

A ruthless enemy. A shocking secret. An impossible choice. Xander and her friends onboard the bounty hunter ship, Prodigal, risk their lives to recover the derelict spaceship that could restore the shattered pieces of her memory. No one realizes what that decision will cost them. A ruthless syndicate is determined to capture Xander by any means necessary. For protection, she turns to top Prodigal hunter and former assassin Kale Ravenwood, but as their relationship heats up, so does the syndicate threat. The closer they grow to each other, the more danger they face, for Xander can’t remember enough, and Kale remembers far too much. Xander’s search for her memories leads her across the solar system, only to discover the unbelievable secret of the Destiny Project. When Xander learns the truth of her identity and origins, she must choose between the comfort of her former life and the new, dangerous life she has come to know and love. Either choice means sacrifice. What would she rather give up—her friends or her name?

Bounty hunter Devon Chase has known Kale Ravenwood all his life, but since they became partners aboard the Prodigal, Devon is struggling to understand how much his best friend has changed. The Black Dragon Syndicate turned his best friend into a killer, and he feels like it's his job to help Kale remember his true self—the person he used to be before the syndicate. But can you teach a killer to stop killing? Kale may be able to rise from the ashes of his past, but, in the process, his friends may get burned.

An unlikely sisterhood. An unwanted child. An unthinkable sacrifice. Aura Morningstar takes the last fragment of the time travel stone and escapes the Knightshade Syndicate by stowing away on a mercenary ship. Despite a rocky start to their relationship, Aura builds a new life with the crew, eccentric mercenary sisters Snow and Rain Stormcloud. But the consequences of refusing to change history are only beginning. Aura discovers she is pregnant with Darien Stone’s child. The Stormcloud sisters are pressuring Aura to terminate the pregnancy, but Aura knows all too well the easy choice isn’t always the right one. Can she ever truly accept a child born of rape? Can she face the constant reminder of all she has lost? And if she keeps the child, will Snow and Rain continue to shelter her? Without their protection, Knightshade will find her, take back the time stone, and rewrite history for their purposes. Aura must decide what she’s willing to sacrifice—Stone’s child or history itself.