Nicole 19 drinks and takes drugs to suppress voices whispering in her head. Bleeding out from a knife wound, thug Bungie waves a gun at her and ER doc Sam. Winged aliens speak to her, and kidnap all three. Content, she is still a pawn aboard Fyrantha, hearing directions from the live spaceship to Sibyls for human repair crews. Human leader Plato warns her explorations endanger Earth. Defiantly, she continues, exposing worlds to the ship's warring factions.

A legend of Space Opera is back with Knight, the second book in Timothy Zahn's Sibyl’s War series Nicole Hammond 19 was trying to survive on the streets of Philadelphia. She, cruel bleeding bully Bungie, and doctor Sam were abducted by a race of silent mysterious moth-like aliens and taken to a vast ship Fyrantha . Now she is a Sibyl. After harmful throat spray, the special young women exchange ship directions for human crews to fix by quadrants. She has found arenas where ShipMasters force alien tribes to fight like gladiators of old, in teams for food. Competing factions control different parts of the ship. Humans and other sentient aliens caught in the middle. But Nicole is done being bullied, and now she has a plan to take control of the ship. She just has to outsmart war profiteers and slavers to do it.

Nicole and all other sentient creatures are caught up in a war for control between two competing factions. Now, the street-kid turned rebel leader has a plan that would restore freedom to all who have been shanghaied by the strange ship. She just has to unite the many alien races being forced to combat for their freedom, dodge slaving war profiteers determined to capture her, and convince an AI at war with itself to trust her above all else.