A young star-pilot maverick and legend-in-the-making continues her journey to destiny and adventure in master storytellers Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s phenomenal Liaden universe®. Theo Waitley discovers the heroine inside herself as she follows her destiny as an ace starship pilot and budding leader of a powerful Liaden clan..Theo Waitley is an ace starship pilot and pure maverick.  Her mom is a renown Terran scholar and her birth father is an interstellar aristocrat in hiding. Whatever, thinks Theo.  She still feels like a socially-challenged misfit.  But after being selected to train with the best-of-the-best at the pilot academy, she figures she can leave behind those gawky, misfit days of teenage angst that made life so complicated before!   But for Theo, life is about to get even MORE complicated and deadlier still.  For even though shes survived the Academy and become one of the best pilots in the galaxy, the past is about to blast her with gale-force winds.  Theo can run, but she cant hide.  Her destiny as master pilot and leader of a powerful Liaden clan calls, and there are LOTS of enemies who will try to make sure shes quite dead before she has the chance to make an answer..About the Liaden Universe® series:.Every now and then you come across an author, or in this case, a pair, who write exactly what you want to read, the characters and personalities that make you enjoy meeting them. . . . I rarely rave on and on about stories, but I am devoted to Lee and Miller novels and stories. —Anne McCaffrey.These authors consistently deliver stories with a rich, textured setting, intricate plotting, and vivid, interesting characters from fully-realized cultures, both human and alien, and each book gets better. —Elizabeth Moon.[T]he many fans of the Liaden Universe[®] will welcome the latestcontinuing young pilot Theo Waitleys adventures. —Booklist on Saltation