Tears don't fall in zero-g. In 2177, twelve year old Meriel Hope walked away from the first reported space piracy in a hundred years and the carnage of her family and friends on the merchant space ship Princess, her home. But Meriel was just a kid, and no one believed her.Ten years later, still struggling with post-traumatic stress and the drugs that control it, Meriel is trying to put her life back together and make a home for the surviving children from the Princess. And she's lying about all of it. However, the conspiracy behind the Princess massacre has big plans, and Meriel and the orphans are in the way. Unless Meriel can overcome the trauma from the first attack and discover why the overwhelming forces are aligned against them again, Meriel and the orphans will die, and an entire sector of space will be lost to an iron-fisted tyranny.