Something is coming... Bad-tempered, bad-mouthed, tough-as-nails Head Peacekeeper, Desdemona, aka 'The Demon', keeps a tight grip on her settlement on the outskirts of the Outlaw Sector. A rising body count, attacks, escalating outlaw activity, and clashes with the dangerously handsome Daamen trader, Simon, can only culminate in two things, one hotly intimate, the other so very deadly...