Nation states often engage in espionage and black-ops, even in times of peace. Especially in those times.

Russian Confederation pilot Lieutenant Borislava "Chainsaw" Lukina's task is simple. Find the United Earth frigate Vigilance, and distract them while a spetsnaz agent attaches a tracking beacon to the ship's hull. All they have to do is cripple their own ship and wait to be found, then engage in a risky space-walk with no backup where they'll both be shot as spies if they're caught.

What could possibly go wrong?

A novella set in the Legacy Fleet universe, sixteen years before the events of Legacy Fleet. A prequel to the novel Hammerfall.