With Imperial armies bogged down in a brutal war of attrition over the corpse of the hive city Vesperus, the fate of the campaign may hinge on the skies above it. As the Aeronautica commits everything it has to seize the vital stronghold known as Interceptor City, one veteran pilot is forced back into the cockpit for one last fight.
Once a legendary ace, Bree Jagdea has long since left the terror and exhilaration of aerial combat behind. Now resigned to running supplies in support of the war effort, she considers her days of screaming dogfights and razor-thin margins of survival to be over. That illusion shatters when enemy bombers begin a merciless campaign over Vesperus, and Jagdea is recalled to active duty.
Assigned to the notorious Circus 66 squadron, she finds herself flying near-suicidal dead-drop missions and blisteringly fast interception runs through the hive’s deadly rat runs – narrow corridors of fire and steel where a single mistake means instant death. Thrust back into a life she thought she’d escaped, Jagdea must test her skill against enemy aces, fight to secure Interceptor City for the Imperium, and somehow survive with her sanity intact.