The legal system of the Commonwealth is ambiguous. All your merits can turn into nothing overnight. After the mutiny on Garren ended, John Sol was sentenced to life imprisonment. Fate once again has an unexpected surprise in store. To despair—or to try to survive in a place that prisoners call the “Last Shelter”? A former paratrooper isn’t trained to give up; he’ll try to find a way out even where it can’t be seen.