Chosen. Warrior. Detective?

Six years after Minu Groves' return from her galaxy-spanning quest, she has become a member of the Chosen council-but due to conflicts with others on that council, she's been put into virtual retirement as a university dean. Until one day, when she learns a truth about her long-missing father that shakes her to the core, causing her to wonder…

Is he still alive?

Clues lead into the darkness of space, and once more she and her friends have answers to seek and a trail he may have left to follow.

And in her absence, clouds of war begin to loom…