<p class=ql-align-justify>Five hundred years into the future Pevely Keiser is the capo of the criminal organization called Temmen.&nbsp;Temmen runs itself for the most part with only a few nudges from Pevely to keep people in line.&nbsp;Lately she has two things on her mind.&nbsp;She wants to do something good and useful with the funds that accrue to the gang.&nbsp;And she wants a companion or two to help her...and perhaps to share her bed for she well knows it's lonely at the top.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>While Athena Pevely's computer who has taken the form of a young woman strives to humanize herself Pevely encounters an enigmatic young man on the run and agrees to help him.&nbsp;A relationship forms which ends in murder.&nbsp;Pevely is now bound to seek retribution and winds up opposing powerful corporate hierarchs in the process-hierarchs with their own power-grabbing agenda that cannot but bode ill for the people of the Confederation.&nbsp;The outcome is unpredictable as Pevely's companions face certain death if they try to protect her.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p><br></p>