Dante reunites with MacDuff, his old bounty hunting mentor, looking to join him for one last hunt. Meanwhile, Lucretia - Dante's current partner - is asked to find a man who may hold the key to the Divinity Cluster, human genes believed to have extra-terrestrial origins.

Luc and Dante transport a pair of criminals to a prison on Mercury. When they reach their destination and head to the surface, their loyalties and faith in one another are tested in the blinding heat of Mercury's sunward side, where the wrong move ends in agonizing death.

The Trans-Utopian crew is powerless to stop a ship full of religious cultists from crashing into the sun, but manage to pick up an escape shuttle full of survivors - including the charismatic cult leader himself, "Brother Thirteen." The crew soon find that his powers go far beyond mere charisma.

Dante and Luc capture a murderous psychopath named Petrakis, before crossing paths with a Major Bartlett, who has a dangerous, powerful prisoner of his own... and military authorisation to commandeer the Trans-Utopian!

Dante's crew head to Pluto, hot on the trail of a ruthless war criminal named Novak. Percy - aboard the Trans-Utopian - must fight Novak's deadly A.I. as Dante and Luc do battle with the solar system's most notorious killer.

Dante brings a captive fugitive aboard: Dr Nasreen (a brilliant but deranged scientist), along with her teenage son, Ajit. Percy and Ajit's immediate attraction to each other sparks a conflict of love vs loyalty, as Dr. Nasreen fights for control of her son... and of the entire ship.