The world is huge and difficult. Dozens of inhabited planets, four humanoid races, a central government and private colonies, black spots on the Galaxy map and entire dissident states. But people remain people, even if they own personal starships and wear chip implants: they still love and hate, discover new lands and cultivate old ones, trade and fight, create works of art and commit crimes. Sometimes they kill. Sometimes different people try to kill Della Berg, so the young beautiful woman's health insurance lists gunshot wounds. Della has a complicated past that she prefers not to talk about. She always carries a weapon at work, and her boss is a very peculiar person. His profession is inquisitor.