Seven spaceships tethered together. Inhabited by cultures who despise each other. The fate of all rests in the last captain’s uncertain hands. They’ve only begun the journey to a safer world. Captain Periwinth Zephyr’s responsibility is to prevent feuding groups from breaking the tethers and launching into destruction. To assist with this task, she’s gathered rag-tag individuals, Including Tansy Pellum, an Embroid who’s hiding a secret ability that could be a death sentence, and Campion, a Cholter, who has spent his life fighting the stigma of his Kindred. But the seven ships keep experiencing strange malfunctions, and not all can be blamed on technical errors. Could a saboteur threaten the remaining members of humanity