Three Orestes stories from a science fiction future involving some characters connected to the McPhail corporation. The three stories influence each other, but each has their own cast of characters.
Maura has been 'Wiped Clean' of her memories - a self imposed solution to her guilty conscience. An implant in her head keeps her compliant to a life of obedience and humility on the 'New Holland' colony. The implant is unpleasant, even in this peaceful setting, but it becomes a much greater liability when Maura finally escapes her self-imposed exile.
Ann/R/K looks to make her penance with the McPhail corporation by participating in an interplanetary 'prison break'. Each crew member of the ship she commandeers into helping her is left with an impossible decision.
India Taggart has been through a tough initiation with her new employer, and it's left her a changed woman. The darkness of her soul comes to its first tests as she is assigned to do McPhail's work in a war zone. The only hope for her salvation is the pilot of her ship, Moses Adams.