Pirate captain Gracie Madox has made a name for herself as the only pirate the Admiral herself is personally hunting. So when she shows up in the Stacks, her ship damaged from a skirmish in deep space, to ask for a dry-dock, Recoil, the unofficial leader of the hardscrabble, ghost-haunted lower levels of the planetary settlement, knows better than to give it to her. But he can’t afford to get into the middle of a battle with pirates, either. So when Gracie proposes a solution—a game of supernatural Russian Roulette, where the winner walks away and the loser is devoured by hungry ghosts—Recoil can’t afford to say no.
He can’t afford to lose, either.
And with stakes like that, he’s going to have to do more than send up a prayer to Our Lady of the Ghosts if he wants to walk out of this alive.