When Rosie took the job as the Outer Rim's only cook, she never thought she'd run into her old flame - her old flame who was now, apparently, married. With strange, cryptic notes being delivered to her quarters in the middle of the night and nothing more than canned beans, she has her work cut out for her to keep her head down and her profile low.

Delia spent her entire career working towards this point, so why now does everything seem so off-balance? Her husband is busy making deals with General Fineglass, she's reporting on how the station is about to become the Gateway Beyond the Rim, but when her friend and co-worker mysteriously turns up dead, it's up to her to find out why.

In book 5 of The Cricket Chronicles, we're traveling to the Outer Rim - where everything is far more dangerous.