The Meridian Dominion rules a hundred worlds with the Quiet, a jamming field over every hyperspace lane, and the scattered rebels fight and die alone. On the desert world Okhra, Yun Asaro fixes skimmers and keeps her head down, until a battered courier droid crashes behind her hut carrying her father's last recording. A military space-opera adventure of starships, smugglers and one song that could wake a hundred worlds.