Entanglement: 1 (Belt)

Commander Scott McNabb of the science vessel Hermes is three years into a five-year-long survey of the asteroid belt. Its an excruciatingly dull mission yet it keeps him far away from the agencies that are chasing him down. However his fortunes change along with the other four crew when they discover a derelict spaceship in orbit around a binary asteroid. Scotts share of the salvage would be enough to clear his name and start a new life. But the ship contains an experimental quantum device lost while en route to Europa and ownership of this technology could fundamentally change the balance of power within the solar system. Now that word is out of its discovery the Hermes finds itself being hunted down by the very people Scott has spent so much time and effort hiding from. If Scott wants any hope of a new life then hes going to have to fight for it. Yet after a lifetime of running and hiding hes not sure if he has what it takes--maybe he really is just one of lifes losers. Then again there is a deep river of rage welling up inside him born out of a lifetime of countless accumulated injustices each one inching him ever closer to the edge--and this could be the one that finally makes him snap.