Captain Henry Blue has made a terrible choice as his family faces financial ruin. He's taken his family's oldest freighter, the Charlie B., not only to one restricted planet, but to a second; a world called Plymouth. Worse, he took a passenger, Kathryn Sera, as a Terran Emissary, who has effectively been taken hostage. She seeks to solve a mystery that's drawn them here. Solving it will likely lead both her and his ship to their doom. Of course, he should cut and run... But Henry knows they're jinxed. It's not like his refitted old freighter and less than ideal crew can take on a solar system, with its private fleet. On the other hand... They don't understand what Kathryn is. He's not certain he does. Then again -- they've pissed him off. Welcome to the second book in the Terran Catalyst series by D.H. Aire, author of the Highmage's Plight Series.