Ehoma Tuomitti is the feisty deck-watch chief of the Byubr, a Kertovan battleship at war on the high seas of the island planet Kilmoyn. Fighting fog as well as enemy ships - and juggling an upstart lover - Tuomitti has her hands full even before Sean Lincoln Borlund and his crew fall from the sky and into the complex political upheaval that is the Kilmoyn landscape.The planet has long been colonized by various other races and alien interests, but now the Native Kilmoyns are beginning to fight back, and the stranded humans quickly find themselves pulled into the conflict. After Borlund rescues a Kilmoyn woman and her baby from certain death when their ship is crushed under an enemy cruiser, he and his crew find themselves under fire. Desperate to repair their vessel and return to Earth, he has no choice but to accept the help of Tuomitti and her cohorts - and the responsibility that comes with it. Read Less