The Future: colonisation of the solar system is underway. The emergence of humanity as a global organism has begun. "United Earth," is a cliche abandoned generations before. Space is being exploited for profit by the most powerful business conglomerates, governments and individuals. The common man is left to fight over the scraps.
Noel Kennard is a man with history - all of it bad. He was in line to run the most powerful Crime Syndicate before betraying his boss, Makian, arguably then the most powerful single person in the solar system. Kennard now runs his own private business group set up to solve problems and save lives on a planetary level. His tastes are expensive, his best friends want to kill him, his motto is: altruism and profit are bedroom buddies.
Ilona Jones is a woman with problems - all of them down to Kennard. Set up by Kennard when he betrayed Makian, Jones was forced to retire from Peace Corps. Now she is a freelance Marshall, working the nomad cities of Mars. A single parent to Juno, 19, Jones knows she has been a bad mother - now she must learn to be a friend. Her biggest problem is that Juno wants to find out about her father - Kennard.
Joseph Makian is charming, intelligent and deceitful - but he may not be human. He has only one problem: how to steal the solar system.
First FrontierThree lives in collision.The future is a dangerous place to live.
